Hayden Admits Use of Waterboarding

[unhappycamper]

Hayden Admits Use of Waterboarding
Associated Press | February 06, 2008

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects.

In congressional testimony Tuesday, CIA Director Michael Hayden became the first administration official to publicly acknowledge the agency used waterboarding on detainees following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Waterboarding involves strapping a suspect down and pouring water over his cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It has been traced back hundreds of years, to the Spanish Inquisition, and is condemned by nations around the world.

"We used it against these three detainees because of the circumstances at the time," Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee. "There was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were inevitable. And we had limited knowledge about al-Qaida and its workings. Those two realities have changed."

Hayden said Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were waterboarded in 2002 and 2003. Hayden banned the technique in 2006, but National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell told senators during the same hearing Tuesday that waterboarding remains in the CIA arsenal - so long as it as the specific consent of the president and legal approval of the attorney general.


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[bullimiami]

1. drip drip drip ... he is lying. this is following the bush mo.

deny it ever happened....
then acknowledge it may have happened but....
stretch it out some more....
admit it happened but not much and extenuating circumstances....
more to come....


he is a liar. bush and cheney and rice and rumsfeld. liar liar liar liar. torturers and war criminals all.
they used it on more than 3 and it wasnt because they were scared of another imminent 9/11.
they like torture, they believe in it, its how they do things. they have more in common with saddam than they do lincoln.

our weak-kneed congress probably wont even try to cut this cancer out and we will still be dying of it eating away at our country forever.