Yesterday, Steven Bradbury, the Justice Department official who heads up the Office of Legal Counsel, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. We posted video of him explaining how the waterboarding practiced by the CIA was miles away from that practiced by the Spanish Inquisition — it was a much more careful and controlled practice (there’s no jumping on the victim’s stomach or vomiting of blood).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178506