沒授權的CIA使用waterboarding

AFP

美國的邁克爾檢察長Mukasey說星期二waterboarding沒有為CIA審訊當前被批准，但說他一般來說不會回答問題從與技術的合法的國會。

Mukasey，在星期三是作證在參議院司法委員會面前，說從成為的檢察長在11月9日他在中央情報局方法在它的當前審訊節目簡報了。

「有限的套方法當前被批准用於那個節目。 I have been authorized to disclose publicly that waterboarding is not among those methods,” Mukasey wrote in a letter to committee head Senator Patrick Leahy.

“Accordingly, waterboarding is not, and may not be used in the current programme,” he said.

But Mukasey, under pressure since his nomination last year to declare waterboarding, which simulates drowning, as illegal torture in all cases, would not say whether it has been used in the past.

He also suggested there could be circumstances where it might be allowable, and added that he would not answer questions from the committee about technique’s legality under US law in the absence of any specific current needs and conditions to discuss it.

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