Well if you are saying it is not being used currently, and that you agree with the current policy (it’s ‘on the money’) then you are saying you’d never be for using it.
What you are also saying is that you admit that when they were using waterboarding a few years ago, it was only being done ‘very selectively’ then. I believe if it was being used ‘very selectively’, that your concern that the policy would be abused, would be greatly minimized.
Can I ask you if there was anything the military could have done while using this technique, ‘very selectively’, that would have made you feel assured that it was not being abused, in your opinion? Could they have been able to give you enough proof that it wasn’t being abused, to your satisfaction? And if so, what would that proof have been?
Well, I think the record of activities as we know it, if true, is certainly proof that the procedure has not been abused.
If we were to have a policy that we were going to resume using this technique, I would like to see safeguards in place, such as requireing specific written authorization from a high (really high) level, or perhaps a warrant from the FISA court. Something along those lines.