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CIA主任保衛酷刑
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PAMELA HESS
CIA邁克爾・ Hayden主任保衛了他的代辦處的審訊實踐星期二作為在布什總統的檢察長被提名人登上的政治壓力拒绝涉嫌是CIA的審訊節目的一部分的技術。
「我們的節目是一樣合法的，像他們有價值」， Hayden說在為交付準備的評論對芝加哥委員會在全球性事理。 「最佳的信息源關於恐怖分子和他們的計劃是恐怖分子」。
Hayden說「那智力的不能替代的本質是我們有翻譯的唯一理由，拘留和審訊節目」。
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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