Rove ‘proud’ of US waterboarding policy 12, March 2010
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Karl Rove, the man many consider to be the brain behind George W Bush’s Presidency, has said that he is ‘proud‘ of the techniques such as waterboarding used by US authorities to obtain information as they saved lives. He also denied that waterboarding was torture. However, he is in a seemingly ever decreasing minority, holding that opinion. The journalist Christopher Hitchens, for example, underwent waterboarding in the name of research and unequivocally insists that it is indeed torture.
Waterboarding certainly looks fairly innocuous. All it involves, after all, is a flannel or cloth and a surprisingly small amount of water. Whilst clearly the torture that many human rights groups insist goes on routinely in many Arab (and Iranian) jails involves more ‘wailing and gnashing of teeth’ i.e. more blood, this does – obviously enough – not negate waterboarding as a form of torture in and of itself.
Torture, interrogation and the ticking bomb thesis 10, March 2008
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These are two interesting clips of former FBI Agent Jack Cloonan. He has interviewed several members of Al Qaeda in the past decade and speaks eloquently and will considerable knowledge about interrogation, torture, and the ticking bomb thesis.
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