智力院长谴责waterboarding’作为酷刑的`

由 斯蒂芬Foley

美国情报机构的头在布什政府比其他官员来了更加紧密到comdemning审讯技术“waterboarding”作为酷刑，升火法律列在它的用途由CIA。

麦克McConnell，国家情报的美国主任，说法律测试为酷刑应该是“相当简单的： 是它极痛苦痛苦对点迫使某人说某事由于痛苦？”

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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