Air Force Brig. General Thomas Hartmann, the top legal adviser for the military trials at Guantanamo Bay, refused to say if waterboarding is torture and would not even answer senator Lindsey Grahamâs (R-SC) hypothetical question about whether it would be considered torture if Iranians were to waterboard a downed U.S airman. Instead, Hartmann, who took a drubbing from senator Durbin (D-IL) about the entire tribunal process, asserted that if interrogation techniques provide evidence that âis reliable and probative, and the judge concludes that it is in the best interest of justice to introduce that evidence, ma’am, those are the rules we will follow.â (Washington Post)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179196