Pardon Bush and Those Who Tortured  —  BEFORE President George W. Bush left office, a group of conservatives lobbied the White House to grant pardons to the officials who had planned and authorized the United States torture program.  My organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, found the proposal repugnant.

White House and Republicans Clash Over C.I.A. Torture Report  —  WASHINGTON — On the eve of a long-awaited Senate report on the use of torture by the United States government — a detailed account that will shed an unsparing light on the Central Intelligence Agency's darkest practices …

Senate Torture Report Condemns C.I.A. Interrogation Program  —  WASHINGTON — A scathing report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday found that the Central Intelligence Agency routinely misled the White House and Congress about the information it obtained from the detention …

Senate report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty  —  An exhaustive, five-year Senate investigation of the CIA's secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict of a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality …

Senate report: CIA misled public on torture  —  Washington (CNN) — The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn't work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday.

Dianne Feinstein leaving intelligence job amid clash on tactics report  —  As head of the Senate Intelligence Committee since 2009, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has spent hundreds of hours in secret briefings and seen thousands of pictures from battlefields in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.  She keeps two images with her.

Gruber to face hostile House panel, tea party 'I'm with Stupid' T-shirts  —  Democrats shun Obamacare architect after ‘stupidity of the American voter’ comments