March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" on terrorism suspects on Monday, calling the interrogation technique a form of torture that the Obama ...

The White House said yesterday that waterboarding is legal, but the expert consensus indicates otherwise. Torture is illegal, under both U.S. law and international law. Yet the form of torture known ...

President Obama’s nominee for FBI director on Tuesday said waterboarding is torture and illegal, and told lawmakers he fought to block the practice while serving in the George W. Bush administration.

The politics of Mukasey's nonresponse to whether waterboarding is torture has, unsurprisingly, led the media to ask the same question. Washington, D.C. is in the thick of an apparently arcane, but ...

It might not be surprising that waterboarding, the controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning, would become the subject of... Waterboarding At Coney Island: The Thrill That Chills ...

In a tweet, Sen. John McCain pushes back against the 2012 GOP presidential candidates who supported waterboarding in last week’s presidential debate. Bloomberg rounds up the candidates’ positions: ...

Through the centuries, humans have demonstrated extraordinary inventiveness in finding ways to extract confessions from foes. One of the most enduring means of coercion, dating at least to the days of ...

repudiated as president. We learn in today’s New York Times and Washington Post that in his new book, Decision Points, he personally approved the waterboarding of Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh ...

Donald Trump thinks the United States isn't demonstrating its strength enough in the fight against the Islamic State. One of his proposed solutions as president is to revive waterboarding, an enhanced ...

The surprisingly contentious confirmation process of Michael Mukasey, President Bush's pick for attorney general, has come down to one issue: waterboarding. Mukasey has called waterboarding personally ...

NORRISTOWN — An Abington Township couple were convicted of conspiring in a scheme to discipline the woman’s 11-year-old daughter with a waterboarding technique that impeded the child’s ability to ...