How often is waterboarding used today
by
wmou
11/06/2007, 3:56 PM #
by the US govt? Never. The dems are just trying to use it as a way to make people oppose the US and Mr. Bush. They are not interested in stopping it, because it was stopped 4 years ago.
As forms of toture go, waterboarding is mild compared to what terrorists, Al Qaida and many other countries do. Some liberal even volunteered to be waterboarded to demonstate how horrible it is. I doubt that he would volunteer to be tortured by Al Qaida even for 5 minutes.
Waterboarding is wrong and that is the general consensus of our government.
Another thing the dems in congress pretend to not know is that the CIA has had secret prisons since Truman and has practiced torture methods since its inception, with the full knowledge of every president since Truman.
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For all the debate over waterboarding, it has been used on only three al Qaeda figures, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.
As ABC News first reported in September, waterboarding has not been used since 2003 and has been specifically prohibited since Gen. Michael Hayden took over as CIA director.
Officials told ABC News on Sept. 14 that the controversial interrogation technique, in which a suspect has water poured over his mouth and nose to stimulate a drowning reflex as shown in the above demonstration, had been banned by the CIA director at the recommendation of his deputy, Steve Kappes.
Hayden sought and received approval from the White House to remove waterboarding from the list of approved interrogation techniques first authorized by a presidential finding in 2002.
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