WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's pick to be the top intelligence officer says the Army Field Manual that outlines legal interrogation techniques will govern CIA questioning. Retired Adm.

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WASHINGTON -- The Army is setting specific limits on interrogation techniques for prisoners of war and describing actions that would violate international agreements on their treatment, officials said ...

On September 11, 2001, the United States learned a tragic lesson -– our shores could no longer keep us safe and our government failed to uncover the murderous plan of terrorists bent on killing ...

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Early last September, attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq were spiking and an Army general dispatched from a military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concluded in a classified study that the detention of ...

The CIA could hold prisoners only on a short-term basis and would be restricted to using U.S. Army interrogation methods under legislation that former Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne ...

The Pentagon has issued a new interrogation manual on how to deal with detainees. It strictly prohibits how interrogators can question military prisoners, including those the Bush administration calls ...