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14:10, January 14, 2008 |
U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell equates waterboarding with torture in an article published in Sunday's New Yorker.
Waterboarding is a controversial technique that simulates drowning allegedly used against detainees by the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
"Whether it's torture by anybody else's definition, for me it would be torture," McConnell declared in the article.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused to rule on whether waterboarding is torture in his recent confirmation hearings.
This latest take on waterboarding comes in the wake of the CIA's call for the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into whether former CIA agent John Kiriakou's statements to several news organizations purporting to confirm theCIA's use of waterboarding constituted an illegal release of classified information.
The CIA is also embroiled in a controversy about the destruction of videotapes that supposedly showed harsh interrogation techniques used against two "high value" detainees believed to have been “waterboarded.”
U.S. President George W. Bush maintains an ambiguous stance on the definition of torture while insisting he would never allow it.
Source:Xinhua
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