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Il capo di intelligenza condanna il `che waterboarding' come tortura
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La testa della Comunità di servizio segreto degli Stati Uniti è venuto più vicino di qualunque altro funzionario nella gestione di Bush a comdemning la tecnica di interrogazione “di waterboarding„ come tortura, rifornente una fila legale sopra il relativo uso dal CIA.
Mike McConnell, il direttore degli Stati Uniti di intelligenza nazionale, ad esempio che la prova legale per tortura dovrebbe essere “semplice grazioso: È excruciatingly doloroso al punto di forzatura del qualcuno dire qualcosa a causa del dolore?„
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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