Bush: U.S. Doesn't Torture Prisoners

President Bush said Friday the United States does not torture prisoners, trying to calm a controversy created when Vice President Dick Cheney embraced the suggestion that a "dunk in water" might be useful to get terrorist suspects to talk.

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Two Washington Post staff writers detail how water boarding actually worked to save countless lives in the war on terror.

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It's a simple question. Do you support torture?

Attorney General Eric Holder shows his independence by ordering torture probe Posted by The Star-Ledger Editorial Board August 30, 2009 6:00AM

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In April, after the Obama White House released memos documenting the Central Intelligence Agency's use of what the Bush administration called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and what everybody else called "torture," former Vice President Dick Cheney made a show of demanding t …

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Obama administration will continue the Bush administration's practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will assertedly monitor their treatment to "ensure" they are not tortured.

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Specific descriptions of how the CIA waterboarded detainees have emerged, including a highly ironic detail for a highly brutal procedure: the use of bottled water.

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Keith Olberman interviews "Mancow" Muller, a conservative talk show host who was water boarded on his show and said "I don't want to say this but it IS torture!"

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excerpt: ""Senator, that I don't recall remembering." With those six words uttered during the furor over his purge of U.S. prosecutors, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales likely etched his epitaph.

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Can't be worse than water boarding... or could it?

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Somewhere among the strategically placed references to September 11, 2001 and his unapologetic defense of torture, Dick Cheney managed to lie about a series of topics and events that are well documented. It is, after all, the electronic age and facts are not difficult to come by.

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After ripping George W. Bush and expressing his desire to waterboard Dick Cheney, former governor Jesse Ventura continues his media storm, this time in a sitdown with Huffington Post.

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Erich "Mancow" Muller, a Chicago-based conservative radio host, recently decided to silence critics of waterboarding once and for all. He would undergo the procedure himself, and then he would be able to confidently convince others that it is not, in fact, torture.

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Dick Cheney is unleashed! After eight years of being nearly invisible to the media, the former vice president has come forth bearing wrath. He is now a man on a mission, an angry messenger.

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Some of the first questions asked of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed upon his capture and during the time during which he was waterboarded were about possible connections between al Qaeda and Iraq, according to a review of several reports on U.S. intelligence operations.

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A CIA inspector general's report from May 2004 that is set to be declassified by the Obama White House will almost certainly disprove claims that waterboarding was only used in controlled circumstances with effective results.

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Chris Wallace did not challenge Newt Gingrich's false assertion that Democrats did not try to ban waterboarding. In fact, the Democratic-controlled Congress passed a bill in 2008 to ban the use of waterboarding -- a bill vetoed by President Bush.

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I hear you support abortion. Do you want to be aborted? My kind of woman that Ann Coulter. Genius. This was Ann's reply after Ms. Joy Behar presses her hard on the water-boarding issue.

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Nancy Nancy Nancy

This is a pretty good one! Liar liar pants on fire or not. Who knows.

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Who Would Waterboard Jesus?

Walt D asks the question, "Who Would Jesus Waterboard (besides Judas)? Why is it that ultra-conservatives, most of whom claim to embrace Christian values, are the first to chuck their morality once it becomes inconvenient?

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When it comes to torture, it is not what we did but what we are doing. It is not what happened but what is happening and what will happen.

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Torture or Not Torture... Let's Call It

I see the ongoing debate on American torture during the Bush administration and have to say there are two phrases of which I'm very tired. The first is "America does not torture." The second is "enhanced interrogation". Let's start with the latter.

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The failure to conduct a comprehensive examination occurred despite calls to do so as early as 2003.

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Poll Should all Conservatives and Republicans especially Sean Hanitty take the Water board Challenge?

After Charles Grodin proposed to Sean Hanitty that he submit to water boarding, Sean Hanitty without really thinking about it said that he would do it for charity or for our troops.

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Brilliant! Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally admits that she knew about waterboarding technique. She was briefed on the technique in 2002 and did not object to the procedure. But... She claims she had no idea the CIA would use it? Huh?

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A layperson's view on potential investigation of the practice of water boarding

I have been watching the news channels and have listened to numerous talking heads debating whether or not an investigation that may possibly lead to prosecution for the practice of water boarding should be conducted. The views go all over the spectrum about this issue.

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Ali Soufan was one of the FBI agents who initially interrogated Abu Zubaydah and was an FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005. This is his story.

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