Intelligence chief condemns ‘waterboarding’ as torture情報行政譴責waterboarding '酷刑
By通過 Stephen Foley斯蒂芬福爾利
The head of the US intelligence community has come closer than any other official in the Bush administration to comdemning the interrogation technique of “waterboarding” as torture, stoking a legal row over its use by the CIA.主管美國情報界已接近比其他任何官方在布什政府comdemning審訊技術“ waterboarding ”酷刑，引發的法律爭拗，其使用由中央情報局。
Mike McConnell, the US Director of National Intelligence, said the legal test for torture should be “pretty simple: Is it excruciatingly painful to the point of forcing someone to say something because of the pain?”麥克。麥克柯奈爾，美國國家情報總監說，法律的考驗酷刑，應該是“相當簡單：這是所願痛苦的出發點，迫使有人說一些，因為痛” ？
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.雖然waterboarding一直被視為酷刑的一個多世紀以來與美國軍方禁止使用，美國總統布什進行了辯護， “強化審訊技術”由中央情報局。 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. waterboarding的過程，就是一個控制溺水，其中一嫌疑人的肺部充滿了水，他是作出相信他是死亡。
Controversy over whether the practice constitutes torture has put Mr Bush on a collision course with the Democrats, who want it banned.爭論焦點：是否實踐構成酷刑已付諸表決，議員，布什就發生碰撞，當然與民主派，誰希望它禁止。 More significantly, CIA agents who have carried out waterboarding – and their superiors who approved the practice – could face legal action.更重要的是，中央情報局特務誰進行了waterboarding -和他們的上級，誰批准的實踐-可能面臨法律行動。
“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. “如果它被確定為酷刑，會有一個巨大的罰款須支付的任何人從事資訊科技， ”麥克柯奈爾告訴新紐約客雜誌昨天。 “If I had water draining into my nose… oh God, I just can’t imagine how painful. “如果我有水引流到我的鼻子…哦上帝，我只是無法想像如何的痛苦。 Whether it is torture by anybody else’s definition, for me it would be torture.”無論是酷刑，由其他人的定義，對我來說，將是酷刑“ 。
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.上個月，一名前中央情報局人員透露，阿布zubaida ，一名高級鋁- qai'da嫌疑人，受到waterboarding ，並打破了在大約35秒。 John Kiriakou, who was based in Pakistan, said it “was like flipping a switch”.約翰kiriakou ，誰是設在巴基斯坦說， “就像翻開一開關” 。
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