Tuesday, February 12, 2008

U.S. Justice Department 'Cannot' Probe Waterboarding, Officials Say, and Here's Why...This Is What It Looks Like

The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA's use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees.The remarks reflected a renewed effort by the Bush administration to defend its past approval of the interrogation tactic known as waterboarding, which some lawmakers, human rights experts and international lawyers have described as illegal torture.In case you were wondering, this is what waterboarding looks like:

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