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Вождь сведении судит `waterboarding' как пытку
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Головка общины сведении США приходила более близко чем любое другое должностное лицо в администрации кустика к comdemning метод расспрашивания «waterboarding» как пытка, stoking законный рядок над своей пользой C I A.
Майк McConnell, директор США национальной сведении, сказало правовой критерий для пытки должен быть «милые просто: Оно excruciatingly тягостно к пункту принуждать кто-то сказать что-то из-за боли?»
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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