| Is waterboarding torture?
Do you consider the technique of waterboarding torture? Some higher ups try and say it's not so much torture as an 'enhanced interrogation technique.
For those who do not know waterboarding is the act of stimulated drowning, used to obtain information.
Also here is a quick definition of torture that we are going with: Torture, according to international law, is "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity |