Bush: US “may” torture again
BBC News [UK]
02/06/08
US President George Bush might consider authorising the controversial interrogation method of waterboarding in future, the White House has said. Belief that an attack was imminent and legal advice would be major factors in the decision, his spokesman said. On Tuesday the CIA admitted for the first time that it had used the method, which simulates drowning and has been condemned as torture by rights groups. … White House spokesman Tony Fratto maintained that the practice — which the CIA said it had carried out on three high-profile al-Qaeda detainees — was legal...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7231146.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drowning
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
02/06/08
US President George Bush might consider authorising the controversial interrogation method of waterboarding in future, the White House has said. Belief that an attack was imminent and legal advice would be major factors in the decision, his spokesman said. On Tuesday the CIA admitted for the first time that it had used the method, which simulates drowning and has been condemned as torture by rights groups. … White House spokesman Tony Fratto maintained that the practice — which the CIA said it had carried out on three high-profile al-Qaeda detainees — was legal...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7231146.stm
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drowning
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
rudkla - 7. Feb, 13:17
