Report Details Origins of Bush-Era Interrogation Policies

A wealth of new details emerged Tuesday about how techniques designed to help captured U.S. troops resist torture formed the basis for the post-9/11 interrogation policies of the Bush-era Pentagon.

Instructors of those techniques proved to be eager in 2002 and 2003 to disseminate them to an emerging crop of More…

Yes, We Tortured Mohammed al-Qatani

In June 2005, Time magazine published the interrogation log of “Detainee 063,” Mohammed al-Qatani, whom his interrogators believed to be the intended 20th Sept. 11 hijacker. (He was detained at an Orlando airport in August 2001 by an extremely alert security official.) Among the treatment al-Qatani endured at Guantanamo More…