In this recent article, reporter Brian Ross, along with the ABC News investigative team, reports that the current director of the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, has banned the use of water boarding in interrogating prisoners. The technique is considered torture by many human rights groups and most people with functioning brains. However, its effectiveness is a point of controversy, which could really use a definitive study. ABC News' article quotes an unnamed high-level CIA source as saying that water boarding was the only interrogation technique that broke Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who confessed to plotting several al Qaeda terror strikes, including the beheading of reporter Daniel Pearl and the 9/11 attacks. So perhaps this is a bittersweet victory for human rights?
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Water Boarding Banned
