Melissa Lucio poses for portrait behind glass at Mountain View Unit in Gatesville Texas. Source: Ilana Panich-Linsman-Linsman for the Innocence Project. Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio’s ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — The first full week of the General Assembly is filled with legislative priorities, and on Thursday morning, the Legislative Black Caucus unveiled its wish list which includes ...

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Former Congressman Peter Hoekstra was chairman and later, Ranking Minority Member of the House Intelligence Committee. The Michigan Republican served nine terms in the House and he now works for a ...

To extract information from suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved harsh interrogation techniques in late 2002 that were not in accordance ...

Waterboarding was used during a "good cop/bad cop" interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, the New York Times reported over the weekend in an article ...

This is a story about two interrogation programs — one run by the U.S. military, the other run by the CIA. The military program was focused on getting important al-Qaida suspects in Iraq to talk. The ...

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