waterboarding

• He has said he prefers "looking forward" to "looking backward" -- even though former Vice President Cheney admits he authorized waterboarding, and Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, has testified that waterboarding is torture. —  The Nation: Top Stories
• Chavez expressed her gratitude that Rodriguez destroyed evidence of "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding, acts which may have violated U.S. law and American treaty commitments: —  Crooks and Liars
• The 2007 report, based on interviews with 14 "high value detainees" who were sent to Guantanamo in September 2006, said the health personnel monitored detainees as they were subjected to techniques such as waterboarding -- which simulates drowning -- and prolonged stress positions. —  Salon
• In addition to widely reported methods such as waterboarding, the report alleges that several of the detainees were forced to stand for days in painful positions with their arms shackled overhead. —  Phawker
• Michael Mukasey refuses to acknowledge that "waterboarding" -- a simulated drowning technique that dates back to the Inquisition -- constitutes torture. —  Consortiumnews.com

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