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→Controversy: rv; nothing to indicate "policy", and you've added the name of the CIA without citation
== Controversy ==
== Controversy ==
Opponents of US policy on [[coercive interrogation]] of suspected terrorists and "[[unlawful combatant]]s" captured in [[Afghanistan]] and in the [[Gulf War]], want waterboardnig to be classified legally as "torture"
Opponents of the US use of the technique call it "torture" and want official definitons of [[torture]] changed so as to outlaw the technique. Top US officials say the technique is not "torture" and rebuffed attempts to reclassify or ban it.
Top US officials say the technique, as performed by the CIA as an interrogation technique is not "torture" and rebuffed attempts to reclassify or ban it.
== References ==
== References ==