CIA 지도자는 고문을 방어한다

PAMELA HESS

마이클 Hayden CIA 지도자는 추정되게 CIA의 심문 프로그램의 일부분인 기술을 거절하기 위하여 법무 장관 지명된 사람에 부시 대통령 거치된 정치 압력으로 그의 기관의 심문 연습 화요일을 방어했다.

"귀중한 것처럼 합법적인 우리의 프로그램 세계적인 사변에 시카고 위원회에게 납품을 위해 준비된 말에서,"는 Hayden 말했다이다. "테러리스트와 그들의 계획에 제일 정보 출처이다 테러리스트 그들자신."는

Hayden는 "저 정보의 바꿔 놓을 수 없는 본질 우리는 번역이 있는 유일한 이유, 제지 및 심문 프로그램."가다는 것을 말했다

Several senior Senate Democrats had vowed to vote against the president’s nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, unless he stated unequivocally that the practice of “waterboarding” is torture. That would render the practice illegal. The U.S. military already forbids it.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats late Tuesday, Mukasey called waterboarding “repugnant” but said he didn’t know if it is illegal because he hasn’t been cleared to receive a classified briefing on it. If after further study he finds that it is, he would rescind any federal legal opinion that allows its use, he wrote.

In September, ABC News reported that Hayden had banned waterboarding in CIA interrogations in 2006. Agency officials have neither confirmed nor denied waterboarding prisoners in the past, and they would not confirm the reported ban.

It is believed that fewer than five high-value detainees have been subjected to waterboarding, and the technique has not been used since 2003.

Waterboarding simulates drowning by immobilizing a prisoner with his head lower than his feet and pouring water over his face. Hayden said harsher interrogation techniques are used in “small, carefully run operations” that have been applied to fewer than 35 prisoners since 2002.

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