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January 13, 2008
The US Treads Water Over Its Involvement in Torture
From BBC Online
US national intelligence chief Mike McConnell has said the interrogation technique of water-boarding "would be torture" if he were subjected to it. Mr McConnell said it would also be torture if water-boarding, which involves simulated drowning, resulted in water entering a detainee's lungs.He told the New Yorker there would be a "huge penalty" for anyone using it if it was ever determined to be torture.
However...
The US attorney-general has declined to rule on whether the method is torture.
And...
In July 2007, President Bush signed a controversial executive order on the treatment of suspects detained by the CIA which did not outlaw the agency's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as water-boarding.
Posted by andrew on January 13, 2008 10:25 AM in the category Rendition
Comments
...And of course, everyone that the American use waterboarding on gets a medical to see if water has entered their lungs.
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at January 14, 2008 9:06 AM