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  • U.S. government condemns "waterboarding" as torture

    03/02/2009 8:46:06 AM PST · by SolidWood · 107 replies · 2,396+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | March 2, 2009 | Randall Mikkelsen
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" as an interrogation technique for terrorism suspects on Monday, calling it a form of torture that the Obama administration could never condone. Holder's declaration underscored President Barack Obama's break with the former Bush administration's anti-terrorist policies, which were condemned by human-rights groups, civil liberties advocates and U.S. allies abroad. "Waterboarding is torture ... My Justice Department will not justify it, will not rationalize it and will not condone it," Holder, who his heading a review of the treatment of terrorism suspects, said in a speech to...