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Le chef d'intelligence condamne le `waterboarding' en tant que torture
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Par Stephen Foley
La tête de la communauté d'intelligence des USA est venue plus étroitement que n'importe quel autre fonctionnaire dans l'administration de Bush à comdemning la technique d'interrogation de « waterboarding » comme torture, chargeant une rangée légale au-dessus de son utilisation par la CIA.
Mike McConnell, directeur des USA d'intelligence nationale, a dit que l'essai légal pour la torture devrait être « joli simple : Est il atrocement douloureux au point de forcer quelqu'un à dire quelque chose en raison de la douleur ? »
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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