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Better yet, sleep deprivation is equal to waterboarding in terms of effective torture techniques.

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.)

Later in the talk, according to Bloomberg, Colón recounts locking herself in the car because she is «afraid he was going to body - slam me into the ground again or waterboard me in our upstairs bathroom like he had done before.»

«Do as I command or I'll waterboard you in a lake of fire for eternity.»

Not exact matches

Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington had this sly retort to Trump's stance in support of waterboarding and other forms of torture:

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.

Elsheikh, 29, was said to have earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions and crucifixions while serving as a jailer, while fellow guard Kotey was involved in beheadings and known for «exceptionally cruel torture methods», including electronic shocks.

Haspel, who would be the first woman director in CIA history, reportedly oversaw a secret CIA prison in Thailand where a terrorism suspect was waterboarded.

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 are torturing him for information and since no one knows he» in U.S. dy they can do whatever they want, waterboarding, pulling nails, breaking bones, sodomy, etc..

I find it quite interesting in the current debate about waterboarding and «enhanced interrogation techniques» that many of the same people who are condemning the practice of waterboarding as a means to learn information about what our nation's enemies are planning, are the same people who, after 9 - 11, demanded to know why our nation's intelligence did not know that the 9 - 11 terrorist attack was coming.

So if you agree the waterboarding is not something Jesus would do then what about an eternity in hell?

In reality, then, the real horror of waterboarding is almost entirely psychological.

In my opinion, waterboarding (along with sleep deprivation and other such techniques), is a form of psychological torture.

So when it comes right down to it, while I think we can safely say that Jesus would not waterboard His enemies, this does not mean that in a sinful and chaotic world, human governments should not.

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.

A sadistic prison officer who has cost New York State $ 877,637 in legal payouts over assault and sex harassment allegations is now under investigation over accusations he waterboarded two inmates and brutally beat them in their genitals.

They discuss the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, why Lazio thinks Andrew Cuomo is entrenched in Albany politics, and whether waterboarding constitutes torture.

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.

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

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.

In one waterboarding excerpt, doctors were told to record «how long each application lasted, how much water was applied,. . .

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.

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

Dan uses waterboarding, strips the man from the waist down (particularly humiliating in front of a woman), and walks him around the room with a dog collar.

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

Post-amnesiac Bourne was born from water in Identity; as Greengrass shows us, Bourne was first born in water (waterboarding, a timely image of torture) and returns there at trilogy's end.

In this piece, Shanabrook has figuratively chocolate - waterboarded choir boy Christmas statues (and yes, they're real statues).

~ 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.

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.

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.

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

We are very concerned, however, that your role in the current controversy regarding the legality of waterboarding has made you a symbol of Administration policies that conflict with basic principles of international and domestic law, the ideals of Boston College Law School, and the Jesuit principles that underlie Boston College's educational mission.

If law - enforcement authorities know someone is guilty of something that could endanger the public, nothing in the Constitution would prohibit a good smack — or perhaps even waterboarding — to get the person to fess up.

Following his experience, Levin concluded that waterboarding did indeed constitute torture, unless performed in closely supervised circumstances.

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.

In his appearance at the BC Law campus last May, Mukasey acknowledged the controversy but nonetheless defended the former government lawyers whose legal memoranda condoned waterboarding.