Community | December 16, 2008 | 33 comments

Cheney admits authorizing detainee's torture

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"I supported it," he said regarding the practice known as "water-boarding," a form of simulated drowning. After World War II, 7 Japanese soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes in US courts for water-boarding one American soldier and executed for it, a practice which the outgoing Bush administration attempted to enshrine in policy.
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