Sentences with phrase «waterboarding terrorist suspects»

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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.

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.

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.