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‘There’s just no doubt in my mind – under any set of rules – waterboarding is torture.’ – Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the Homeland Security Department, on Friday during an interview with The Associated Press
He also said: “One of America’s greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don’t torture. And I believe, unlike others in the administration, that waterboarding was, is — and will always be — torture. That’s a simple statement.”
What is it? Waterboarding is an interrogation technique that makes a prisoner believe he is in imminent danger of drowning.
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