 Amergin says: Sounds just like every other torturer through history, I did not realise I was doing wrong at the time. "At the time, I felt water-boarding was something we needed to do," he told ABC News. "And as time has passed, and as September 11th has, you know, has moved farther and farther back into history, I think I've changed my mind." The interview is said by ABC News to be first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling top al-Qaeda suspects. The administration of US President George W Bush has always maintained it does not allow the use of torture. "Like a lot of Americans, I'm involved in this internal, intellectual battle with myself weighing the idea that water-boarding may be torture versus the quality of information that we often get after using the water-boarding technique. And I struggle with it."Certainly he has move from the government's position that it's not torture at all. He at all times assumes that it is. His 'defence' is the value there supposedly was in using the torture in the intelligence gained and the lives saved. Bull. The onus is on him to produce the evidence and not expect more blind baseless trust in a discredited organization. They've destroyed the evidence. You don't destroy y... I would have to agree on your points, the American Intelligence groups are always being caught with their pants down. Now they are trying to be hard ass and that just shows the lack of know how. Maybe Hollywood can win this war for them as well. After all they won WW1, WW2 and Vietnam for them. Not to mention Rambo and his war on Burma. im sorry, what means "water-boarding"? im not very experienced in english... Follow the link. Water Boarding; Prisoner bound to a board with feet raised, and cellophane wrapped round head. Water is poured onto face and is said to produce a fear of drowning. thank you very much, im sorry, i hadnt the time to read the article full |
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