Sentences with phrase «by waterboarding»

by waterboarding, or keeping people awake for a couple of days is NOT torture.

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The economist - who once described the austerity imposed by Greece's creditors as «fiscal waterboarding» - said his new MeRA25 party would revive the economy through debt restructuring and other measures.

«I support [Trump's] policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people Alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of Alabama who know Jeff Sessions so well and elected him so often by overwhelming margins,» Brooks said in a statement.

If Mukasey is opposed to waterboarding because it is «ineffective,» he has little to lose by saying so (and it's surprising that he hasn't).

I would add that death by drowning is a torturous and cruel way to take a life; were it not, we wouldn't blink at waterboarding (then again, perhaps you don't).

One of the comments on that post point out exactly what I suspect is the real reason waterboarding is considered «torture» by some: the people doing it to you are your enemies and so there is no way to «tap out.»

Mr Cameron said he objected to the use of waterboarding - interpreted as torture by the UK government - on both ethical and practical grounds.

That inmate, Patrick Alexander, later had a plastic bag placed over his head and was beaten by officers, who threatened to waterboard him, the suit claims.

At the time, waterboarding was among the enhanced interrogation techniques authorized by the Bush administration, a response to fear of continuing attacks after 911.

Pelosi has been under fire this week for conflicting statements she made on whether or not she was briefed by the CIA about so - called «enhanced interrogation techniques,» such as waterboarding, being used on terror suspects.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded Friday to CIA Director Leon Panetta's public disagreement with her charge that she was misled by the agency on the use of waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques.

Doctors employed by the CIA participated in research and experimentation on prisoners at detainment centers such as Guantánamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram air base that included waterboarding, stress positioning, and sleep deprivation, according to a June report from Physicians for Human Rights.

However, I recalled that waterboarding was described by some, probably incorrectly, as having no lasting physical effects.

Well, an awful lot it seems, in this CIA espionage freakout that makes waterboarding appear tame by comparison.

While he has been Attorney - General, however, the single most noted legal position represented by Mr. Mukasey in his public appearances and statements is his consistent refusal to acknowledge the illegality — under international and domestic law — of waterboarding and other extreme forms of interrogation practiced in the past by the current Administration.