The report released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence discloses new details about the C.I.A.’s torture practices.
The report released by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence discloses new details about the C.I.A.’s torture practices.
The CIA misled former President George W. Bush, other policymakers and the American public about the extent and effectiveness of interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects that amounted to torture under international law, according to a report that Sen. Dianne Feinstein released Tuesday.
Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, laid flowers Tuesday at one of New York City's most somber sites—the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum.
An exhaustive five-year Senate investigation of the CIA’s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict on a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.
On April 3, 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted to send the Findings and Conclusions and the Executive Summary of its final Study on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program to the President for declassification and subsequent public release.
With the 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 after the September 2001 terrorist attacks — set to be released Tuesday, the Obama administration and its Republican critics clashed over the wisdom of making it public, and the risk that it will set off a backlash overseas.
A sculpture made with material sourced from the wreckage of New York's Twin Towers is to be permanently displayed in London's Olympic Park, the Art Newspaper reports.
According to the New York Daily News, the 28-foot structure by American artist Miya Ando, entitled After 9/11 (2011), was given to the United Kingdom as a public memorial to honor the 67 British citizens who died in the attacks. More.
Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly pulled no punches in his lecture Thursday at Drew University, saying that rising terrorism around the world should be a major concern for Americans — especially people with ties to New York City.