Sentences with phrase «on waterboarding»

Kanstroom, director of the law school's International Human Rights Program, is far from equivocal in his stance on waterboarding and on Mukasey.

Alleged British war crimes in Iraq and George Bush's comments on waterboarding have weakened David Cameron's hand

For some reason, he decided to act the part of the one liner spouting demagogue while employing some badly executed moments of strategic weaselness (on waterboarding in the first debate and Obamneycare in the second.)

Instead, it seems to me that Jesus would untie his enemy, hand him the bucket, and then get down on the waterboard himself, saying, Go ahead.

Not exact matches

Throughout his campaign he has reiterated his views on torture which included doing a «hell of a lot worse» than waterboarding, and going after terrorists» families.

The documentary accuses the CIA, which had been heavily criticized for its use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in its treatment of Al Qaeda suspects, of using Bigelow to push its own agenda — to show that torture yielded actionable intelligence, that waterboarding got a suspect to give up information that led the CIA to the most wanted terrorist on earth.

From your post, it sounds like you think that those holding power shouldn't care about the Bible's teachings while «on the job», or waterboard and torture and gut social programs all week long and sing and pray on Sundays.

They didn't need psychotherapy to recover from years of waterboarding and food deprivation tactics opposed on them to take hold of a dangerous idea.

I absolutely guarantee that if our country had not used the techniques it did to learn information that it did through techniques like waterboarding, and if another terrorist attack had occurred like the one on 9 - 11, the same people who are calling for an investigation into waterboarding today would instead be calling for an investigation into why our intelligence community failed to uncover this terrorist plot.

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.»

Where I part company with Lauritzen is where he suggests that in a democracy it is acceptable, after losing the battle to frame the law» the Senate having not once but twice rejected legislation to criminalize waterboarding as torture» to try to prevail on professional disciplinary authorities to punish those who choose, for reasons just as conscientiously held as his own, to follow a law he finds objectionable.

Ditto books on elimination communication devote at least half the word - count to making nappies and conventional potty - training sound akin to waterboarding.

The prime minister distanced himself from the former US president's comments that conducting the controversial practise of simulating drowning on terrorist suspects such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - who was allegedly waterboarded 183 times - directly prevented attacks on British soil.

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

The U.S. Senate confirmed Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA, ending a bruising confirmation fight centered on her ties to the spy agency's past use of waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques.

Sen. Jon Tester (D., Mont.) on Tuesday said that he would not be supporting President Donald Trump's CIA director nominee Gina Haspel because he is «not a huge fan of waterboarding.»

But her history as base chief at a black - site prison in Thailand in 2002, where techniques such as waterboarding were used on terror suspects, came under scrutiny during the confirmation process.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Seeking to put an end to questions about what Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about waterboarding and demonstrate he is standing behind her, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Tuesday strongly defended the speaker.

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.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has denied she was ever told explicitly that waterboarding had been used on terrorist suspects, «has a lot of explaining to do,» former Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday.

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.

Mutz polled a nationally representative sample of 1,142 Americans in 2014, and again in 2016, asking about their Harry Potter consumption, their attitudes on issues such as waterboarding, the death penalty, the treatment of Muslims and gays, and (in 2016 only) their feelings about Donald Trump on a 0 - 100 scale.

In the long first sequence, we see a man named Amar strung up on ropes; soon, a CIA agent is waterboarding him.

Scenes of torture, such as one involving waterboarding, don't effectively capture the suffering and agony that must be going on, and some of the fight scenes alternate between making nearly impossible things look easy and making easy things, particularly against «boss» bad guys, look like they could go on forever.

when i click on that i get this heavily processed, possibly biased / worked over / tortured / waterboarded temp anamoly.

~ On Friday the ongoing posturing and showboating from senatorial humbugs over the nomination of a new CIA director prompted Mark to re-air a timely episode of The Mark Steyn Show in which he interviewed the man who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dr James Mitchell.

Based on the rage against this paper at some skeptic blogs, I thought the list of unconvinced scientists must have been derived from hacked emails and waterboarding.

The bad: Attorney General Eric Holder announced this afternoon that the CIA officials who used waterboarding on three «high - level detainees» in 2002 and 2003 will not be prosecuted.

I've had several previous posts (here, here and here) about the student and faculty dissent resulting from Dean John Garvey's decision to invite Mukasey, given his equivocation on the legality of waterboarding.

Fokina's baby exercises apparently stem from the beliefs of one Igor Charkovsky, who has long espoused childbirth practices and child - rearing systems that, depending on whom you talk to, fall somewhere along the continuum between tough love and waterboarding.

But the blog reports that even students who were concerned about Mukasey's equivocation on the legality of waterboarding were happy with his choice.

As the question of whether waterboarding (a form of controlled drowning) is, or should be, considered illegal torture takes center stage at the Mukasey confirmation hearings, the backstory on the Bush Administration's infamous torture memo has now emerged, including former Assistant AG Daniel Levin's role in drafting the memo.

Because bar regulators can learn plenty from Levin's heroic example of trying to really, truly understand and experience the subject on which he was providing legal advice; in this case, waterboarding.