Sentences with phrase «who waterboarded»

~ 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.

I wonder: can those who waterboard and otherwise «harshly interrogate» be able to say that?

Not exact matches

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.

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.

- how you can claim it's a «morally good choice» to elect a president who wants to bring back waterboarding and other forms of torture, who wants to target the families of terrorists because «that's what they do to us,» and who admires the tactics of Vladimir Putin and Saddam Hussein

A person who friended my blog (and I friended hers) posted a YouTube video of Christopher Hitchens experiencing waterboarding.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That inmate, Patrick Alexander, later had a plastic bag placed over his head and was beaten by officers, who threatened to waterboard him, the suit claims.

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.

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.

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.

i mean, waterboarding sounds like something you do when your family is vacationing down the Cape, who would have thought it was torture?»

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.