"Waterboarding has been used on only three detainees," Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee. It was the first time a U.S. official publicly specified the number of people subjected to waterboarding and named them.
Critics call waterboarding a form of illegal torture. Congress is considering banning the technique.
Those subjected to waterboarding were suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and senior al Qaeda leaders Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Hayden said at the hearing on threats to the United States.
So now that we know this to be a fact there really is no choice. Torture is illegal in this country, the CIA has admitted to torture, so the CIA must be put on trial.
We really have no other possible choice. If we put on trial and imprison a Japanese doctor to 25 years of hard labor for doing this to American servicemen during World War II, then how we can simply excuse this behavior sixty years later?
And not only that but the Congress must launch a criminal investigation to find out who at the top gave the order allowing this technique to be used. No matter who it might ensare.
We may have forgotten who we are in the last eight years, but let me remind you that we are Americans. And Americans DO NOT TORTURE!
and any idiot with a brain KNOWs that this is wrong...yet it is debated like it is a Effin Security issue ???? And we will never KNOW how many really have been tortured....too many.
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