During the confirmation hearing, Hegseth said if confirmed as defence secretary, he would follow the law. When King asked, ...

During the confirmation hearing, Hegseth said if confirmed as defense secretary, he would follow the law. When King asked, "Are you OK with waterboarding?" Hegseth said, "Senator, the law of the land ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's pick for secretary of Defense, dodged several questions during his often contentious ...

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin sought to throw out a possible deal in a case complicated by accusations of CIA torture.

Tom Cotton, who called for the military to break up nationwide ... favor of enhanced interrogation methods such as waterboarding, pardoning US soldiers convicted of war crimes, targeting cultural ...

US military personnel are still trained on SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape) techniques and subjected to waterboarding in training situations to help them resist if they are captured.

The justice department argued it would cause irreparable harm if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two co-defendants' pleas were ...

CIA documents confirm he was subjected to waterboarding - simulated drowning ... known as "black sites", before they were passed on to the US military. At a pre-trial hearing in Guantánamo ...

US military custody was rejected because they ... The BBC's Panorama programme witnesses the first accurate public demonstration of waterboarding His cell was described in a CIA cable as "white ...