Holder Rules Out Waterboarding

Holder Rules Out Waterboarding
March 02, 2009
Associated Press

US Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday ruled out the use of waterboarding as an interrogation technique for "war on terror" suspects, saying it amounted to torture.

"Waterboarding is torture. My justice department will not justify it, will not rationalize it and will not condone it," Holder said in a speech to the Jewish Council of Public Affairs.

"The use and sanction of torture is at odds with the history of American jurisprudence and American values. It undermines our ability to pursue justice fairly, and it puts our own brave soldiers in peril should they ever be captured on a foreign battlefield."

Holder is leading a review of the treatment of terror suspects. In one of his first acts in office, President Barack Obama ordered the review, as well as an end to the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention center, the CIA's secret prisons abroad and special interrogation authorities for terror detainees.

In an executive order, Obama required that all interrogations conducted at US facilities worldwide follow the US Army field manual, which bars the use of waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, and other harsh interrogation techniques.


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interrogations "conducted at US facilities. . . ". Why not just say interrogations conducted by the U.S.?