Tag: Torture

Judicial Watch is suing the Defense Department to obtain documents about any American prisoners of war who may have been tortured by Cuban authorities. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Pentagon sued for details on Cuba’s torture of American POWs

Joel Gehrke · March 22, 2016 6:19 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in New Orleans, Friday, March 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

CPAC cancellation reminds conservatives Trump is not one of them

Washington Examiner · March 5, 2016 5:23 am

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Donald Trump must go further to actually disavow his support for waterboarding and killing the families of terrorists, which he has advocated. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Top intel Dem says Trump’s reversal on torture not good enough

Jacqueline Klimas · March 4, 2016 10:22 pm

Trump told Wall Street Journal that he'd "use every legal power that I have to stop these terrorist enemies." (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Trump reverses position on torture

Curt Mills · March 4, 2016 7:14 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that he would not get into the political debate, and that he wouldn't let Dunford do so either. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Pentagon silent on Trump’s plan to bring back waterboarding

Jacqueline Klimas · February 25, 2016 5:33 pm

Trump: ‘Torture Works, OK Folks?’

Chris Deaton · February 17, 2016 7:40 pm

Cruz suggests he’s open to waterboarding

Joseph Lawler · February 7, 2016 3:05 am

Carson: No ‘political correctness’ when fighting ISIS

Curt Mills · November 22, 2015 6:48 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, in Birmingham, Ala. (AP Photo/Eric Schultz)

Trump: I would bring back waterboarding

Daniel Chaitin · November 22, 2015 4:05 pm

CIA Director John Brennan addresses a meeting in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

National Security

CIA director almost apologized for spying on Senate

Barbara Boland · August 13, 2015 6:59 pm

The decision on how to interrogate Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was made with the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks fresh in mind. (AP file)

National Security

The Senate anti-torture bill: A step too far

Jim Davis · June 26, 2015 4:01 am

A hooded and wired Iraqi prisoner is seen at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, Iraq in this undated photo. (AP Photo/Courtesy of The New Yorker)

National Security

Federal judge rules U.S. must release photos of abuse of war prisoners

Joseph Lawler · March 21, 2015 4:33 pm