General Discussion

From your link--this is their wholesale denial of any torture--as I recall:

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have said that American techniques adhere to international accords that ban the use of torture and that ''all appropriate measures'' are employed in interrogations.

Rights advocates and lawyers for prisoners' rights have accused the United States of quietly embracing torture as an acceptable means of getting information in the global antiterrorism campaign. ''They don't have a policy on torture,'' said Holly Burkhalter, the United States director of Physicians for Human Rights, one of five groups pressing the Pentagon for assurances detainees are not being tortured. ''There is no specific policy that eschews torture.''

--so (rhetorical Q for anybody) --when was waterboarding specifically alleged, if not proven?