Washington — When the FBI went looking for the best way to pry information from terrorists, they discovered it in the most unlikely of places: an almost-forgotten interrogator for Nazi Germany. Hanns ...

Review of Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation. By Shane O’Mara. Harvard University Press. 322 pp. $29.95 CIA records describe the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the ...

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(Reuters) - Four newly released memos issued by the U.S. Justice Department during the Bush administration between 2002 and 2005 spelled out methods that could be used by interrogators on terrorism ...

After the surrender at Stalingrad, Soviet intelligence conducted extensive interrogations of captured German soldiers. The resulting transcripts offer a rare glimpse into how defeat was understood by ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As the Justice Department considers whether to investigate alleged harsh interrogation practices sanctioned by the Bush administration, sources say a soon-to- be-released report by ...