Style: MLA. Get Word of the Day daily email! Test Your Vocabulary. Test your vocabulary with our question quiz! Love words? Need even more definitions? Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms The same, but different. In a executive order , President Obama announced that the new legal standard for interrogations would be the U. The Manual had been in use for decades in various iterations. The AFM prohibits all forms of threats and coercion in interrogations and, while it does not answer every question relative to prisoner treatment, it does represent an improvement over previous standards.
Moreover, it unquestionably prohibits waterboarding. To be sure, these pro-waterboarding statements can be explained in part as political posturing. Tough-sounding rhetoric gets votes — especially among audiences who cheer for the death penalty , as some spectators did during a recent Republican primary debate. Moreover, Republican presidential hopefuls use every opportunity to differentiate themselves from the Obama administration. But since the United States has used waterboarding in the recent past, the discussion is anything but academic.
Future use of waterboarding would require a change in the law. The executive order setting the AFM as the standard for interrogations would have to be revoked and replaced. Additionally, the U. Code provision prohibiting torture would have to be amended. Though Bush administration lawyers urged an interpretation of the existing Code provision that permitted waterboarding, their position has been discredited.
Thus, new statutory language would be needed. However, a new president could effect this change by simply issuing an executive order. And an amendment to the U. Army Field Manual. The new provision would require the CIA to comply with Army rules on questioning detainees, which forbid eight methods including waterboarding, forced nudity, electric shock, use of dogs and mock executions.
Senate Republicans had been expected to try to eliminate the provision but backed off, figuring Bush would veto it anyway and Congress could not muster the votes to override, aides said. We're not dragging him to Tunisia. We're not waterboarding. And you tried waterboarding? I heard they do experiments at the Boys' Home So how do you say sorry for waterboarding someone?
This isn't exactly legal, but, then again, neither is waterboarding your own citizens, Got him. We should waterboard them, just to be on the safe side. One of the techniques recommended was waterboarding , which I rejected. Barack Obama visited the CIA's headquarters after authorising the release of classified memos on "enhanced interrogation techniques", such as waterboarding , used against al-Qaeda suspects.
For example, Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, was briefed about waterboarding and raised no objections.
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