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El jefe de la inteligencia condena el `waterboarding' como tortura
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Por Stephen Foley
La cabeza de la comunidad de la inteligencia de los E.E.U.U. ha venido más cerca que cualquier otro funcionario en la administración de Bush a comdemning la técnica de la interrogación de “waterboarding” como tortura, alimentando una fila legal sobre su uso por la Cia.
Mike McConnell, el director de los E.E.U.U. de la inteligencia nacional, dijo que la prueba legal para la tortura debe ser “simple bonito: Es excruciatingly doloroso al punto de forzar a alguien decir algo debido a el dolor?”
Although waterboarding has been considered torture for more than a century and the US military is banned from using it, President George Bush has defended “enhanced interrogation techniques” by the CIA. Waterboarding is a process of controlled drowning in which a suspect’s lungs are filled with water and he is made to believe he is dying.
Controversy over whether the practice constitutes torture has put Mr Bush on a collision course with the Democrats, who want it banned. More significantly, CIA agents who have carried out waterboarding – and their superiors who approved the practice – could face legal action.
“If it ever is determined to be torture, there will be a huge penalty to be paid for anyone engaging in it,” Mr McConnell told The New Yorker magazine yesterday. “If I had water draining into my nose… oh God, I just can’t imagine how painful. Whether it is torture by anybody else’s definition, for me it would be torture.”
Last month, a former CIA officer revealed that Abu Zubaida, a senior al-Qai’da suspect, was subjected to waterboarding and broke down in about 35 seconds. John Kiriakou, who was based in Pakistan, said it “was like flipping a switch”.
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