Waterboarding is a form of torturous interrogation method that involves pouring water over a person's face to create a feeling of drowning, causing extreme discomfort and distress.
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This is what made the George W. Bush administration's support
of waterboarding so distressing for many Americans across the political spectrum.
Charles Krauthammer has argued
for waterboarding even while insisting that it is «a terrifying and deeply shocking torture technique.»
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.)
According to the memos, techniques
included waterboarding, walling (hitting a detainee repeatedly against a wall), facial holds and slaps, stress positions, sleep deprivation, and releasing insects into a confinement box.
Max Boot, who also supports
waterboarding in some circumstances, wrote in response to the report that:
The committee concluded that the CIA misrepresented so - called «enhanced interrogation techniques»
like waterboarding as far less brutal and far more effective than they actually were.
~ 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.
Some Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been calling for an independent panel — like the 9/11 commission — to look
into waterboarding and other harsh techniques.
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.
It says in part: «We believe a commencement speaker should reflect the collective values of the UNC Law community... By refusing to
condemn waterboarding as torture, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has demonstrated that he does not represent those values.»
Pompeo has said that
waterboarding does not constitute torture and has pushed for more leeway for domestic surveillance programs.
Well, an awful lot it seems, in this CIA espionage freakout that
makes waterboarding appear tame by comparison.
Within the scene, there is torture and
waterboarding which is deemed to be too graphic for Japan's standards.
According to these reports, Levin voluntarily submitted to
waterboarding so that he could determine for himself, based on first - hand experience, whether it fell within the legal definition of torture.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented: «Even the most virulent supporter of renewable energy can, after
enough waterboarding, admit the link between more renewables and increased power prices.
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over waterboarding may be new, but the practice is not.
It was one pile of rusty nails after another and as a one - time news editor used to having things done yesterday, my first board experience seemed part barroom brawl and
part waterboarding torture.
President Obama
banned waterboarding soon after being inaugurated in 2009, and going after families is universally considered to be a war crime and is a violation of the Geneva Conventions.
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.
Her involvement in the torture of these suspects, who were
waterboarded repeatedly and slammed into walls, led Senator Dianne Feinstein to block Haspel's appointment to the CIA's top clandestine service role in 2013.
«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.
They did many others things similar to the
CiA waterboarding to those who would not repeat the mantras with them.
Christian god has to be among the worst, maybe pops his head up once in 2000 years and then just gets
dry waterboarded.
Shall we
compare waterboarding and a return to three squares and the soccer match at Guantanamo to types of tortures and deaths that Christians are treated to daily throughout the world and throughout history?
But this is a much different question than whether or not governments should
waterboard enemies...
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).
Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate committee, said CIA tactics, which included
repeated waterboarding, slapping, stress positions and sleep deprivation amounted to torture.
I would even go so far as to say that any conservative evangelical who
approves waterboarding or similar measures does so because he / she is more conservative than Christian.
What you do to fix this problem is bulldoze all mosques, outlaw sharia law and give these psychos and pedophile worshipers a deportation for one count of wife beating, with
daily waterboarding, and de.
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.