Sentences with phrase «reason waterboarding»

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.»

Not exact matches

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.)

If I was leader, or even just a member, of a group that was plotting to kill people for unjust reasons I would expect to be be waterboarded or otherwise tortured.

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.

While the probe is sharply critical of the legal reasoning used to justify waterboarding and other «enhanced» interrogation techniques, NEWSWEEK has learned that a senior Justice official who did the final review of the report softened an earlier OPR finding.