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According to one summary of the Senate report I read, the Democrats slipped in some language like the common meaning of "torture."

According to the definition in the US Code and the international convention, we didn't torture anyone. That's what the Bush Justice Department memo the Dems scream about concluded, too. But that doesn't fit the Dem/MSM meme.

You would think that a President who allegedly was a law professor would know this.

Oh, and the hidden agenda here is there are still some Dems who want to prosecute the CIA agents who performed the waterboarding and other stress interrogation techniques. That hasn't happened so far because 1) they don't have a case because that isn't "torture" and 2) they would have an open rebellion on their hands at CIA.

But, now that President Pen and Phone has been crowned King, maybe he's ready to go that far.

"According to the definition in the US Code and the international convention, we didn't torture anyone."

An act of torture committed outside the United States by a U.S. national or a non-national now within the U.S. is punishable under 18 U.S.C. § 2340. The definition of torture used is as follows:

"torture" means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control; "severe mental pain or suffering" means the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from - (A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; (B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality; (C) the threat of imminent death; or (D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality;

Waterboarding CERTAINLY meets this definition. It is beyond dispute.

The only folks who dispute it are those who have done it, ordered it, and fear prosecution for it.

That's not to say that it should not be done. I would HAPPILY waterboard a known terrorist to discover his supporters and collaborators.