Karl Rove is proud that the US used water torture to break the will of prisoners and foil terror plots
George Bush and Karl Rove embrace at the White House after Rove announced his resignation from the Bush administration in 2007. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
A senior adviser to former US president George Bush has said he is proud that the country used waterboarding to elicit information from terrorism suspects.
Karl Rove, Bush’s chief political strategist for much of his presidency, defended the interrogation approach authorised during Bush’s tenure, saying he was “proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists”.
Last year President Barack Obama banned waterboarding, stating: “I believe that waterboarding was torture and, whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake.”
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George Bush’s former aide defends waterboarding of terrorism suspects
Karl Rove is proud that the US used water torture to break the will of prisoners and foil terror plots
George Bush and Karl Rove embrace at the White House after Rove announced his resignation from the Bush administration in 2007. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
A senior adviser to former US president George Bush has said he is proud that the country used waterboarding to elicit information from terrorism suspects.
Karl Rove, Bush’s chief political strategist for much of his presidency, defended the interrogation approach authorised during Bush’s tenure, saying he was “proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists”.
Last year President Barack Obama banned waterboarding, stating: “I believe that waterboarding was torture and, whatever legal rationales were used, it was a mistake.”
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Tags: Bush administration, Guantanamo Bay, Karl Rove, United States, waterboarding
This entry was posted on March 13, 2010 at 8:44 am and is filed under Commentary, Human rights, torture, Uncategorized, US policy, USA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.