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