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没授权的CIA使用waterboarding
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AFP
美国的迈克尔检察长Mukasey说星期二waterboarding没有为CIA审讯当前被批准，但说他一般来说不会回答问题从与技术的合法的国会。
Mukasey，在星期三是作证在参议院司法委员会面前，说从成为的检察长在11月9日他在中央情报局方法在它的当前审讯节目简报了。
“有限的套方法当前被批准用于那个节目。 I have been authorized to disclose publicly that waterboarding is not among those methods,” Mukasey wrote in a letter to committee head Senator Patrick Leahy.
“Accordingly, waterboarding is not, and may not be used in the current programme,” he said.
But Mukasey, under pressure since his nomination last year to declare waterboarding, which simulates drowning, as illegal torture in all cases, would not say whether it has been used in the past.
He also suggested there could be circumstances where it might be allowable, and added that he would not answer questions from the committee about technique’s legality under US law in the absence of any specific current needs and conditions to discuss it.
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