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...water boarding,” a method of interrogation that simulates drowning. Last week, Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview that dunking terrorist suspects in water was a “no-brainer,” sparking debate over whether he had endorsed “water boarding??—a practice prohibited by the Army and considered torture by many human rights groups and international courts...
...custody, American or foreigner, held at home or overseas, but that is no reason for complacency. Under the definition adopted by the U.S., CID occurs when an interrogation technique “shocks the conscience.” But CIA Director Porter Goss testified in March that water-boarding??a classic form of torture in which suspects are subjected to mock execution by drowning—is a “professional interrogation technique.” Timothy Flanigan, former deputy White House counsel who at the time had been nominated as deputy attorney general, refused during testimony...
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