>>From CSM: "In a radio interview Tuesday, US Vice President Dick Cheney confirmed that US interrogators have used a controversial technique know as waterboarding to interrogate senior Al Qaeda suspects. McClatchy's Washington bureau reports that Mr. Cheney said the White House does not see the practice as torture, and allows the CIA to use it.".
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1026/dailyUpdate.html>>
>>Here is a pres conference later
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5sNwuVOWA>
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>Wasn't this "torture" technique used to foil a recent bombing plot of airliners from Europe?
What are you refering to? Can you send me a link?
>I guess you can call it torture, but at least there isn't a permanent physical injury or death. It just makes it so miserable for the terrorist that they talk. If it saves the lives [of innocent people], I say "happy dunking".
Aside from the moral issues of torturing a person... It is actually a flawed technique. The person will say anything to stop the torture. So the information gathered is useless. For instance John McCain signed a document that he committed war crimes, in order to stop being tortured.
