The United States uses waterboarding and other forms of torture against terrorist suspects to control and terrorize innocent people, not to gain valuable information, says Stephen Lendman, a journalist and political analyst based in Chicago.
US President Donald Trump’s willingness to reinstate waterboarding against terrorist suspects indicates that the new American leader is preparing to bring back one of the most infamous policies of former US President George W. Bush, Lendman said during an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
Waterboarding, which mimics the sensation of drowning, was first allowed during former the Bush administration for terror suspects captured after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The brutal practice was finally banned by the Bush administration in 2006. In January 2009, former US President Barack Obama issued a similar ban on the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture.
However, former Vice President Dick Cheney and…