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Line 70: − − === Consequences of Waterboarding === − Due to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, Susan J. Crawford, the Bush administration official in charge of the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay has declared that Mohammed al-Qahtani was tortured. Because of this, she has dismissed all charges against him and has declared that she will not allow prosecutors to re-file the charges Crawford, who previously served in the Reagan administration as the Pentagon Inspector General under Dick Cheney, said − <blockquote> − I was upset by it. I was embarrassed by it. If we tolerate this and allow it, then how can we object when our servicemen and women, or others in foreign service, are captured and subjected to the same techniques? How can we complain? Where is our moral authority to complain? Well, we may have lost it..<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/13/AR2009011303372.html Interview with Susan Crawford]</ref> − </blockquote>
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Moreover, American military and intelligence services reportedly use (or, at least, have used) waterboarding in their counter-interrogation training programs. Congress carved no exception into torture law for such exercises. '''''Consequently, a conclusion that waterboarding is torture would be tantamount to a finding that our own services are committing a heinous felony, the equivalent of a war crime, against our own operatives — something I believe it is fair to say Congress cannot possibly have intended.'''''}}
Moreover, American military and intelligence services reportedly use (or, at least, have used) waterboarding in their counter-interrogation training programs. Congress carved no exception into torture law for such exercises. '''''Consequently, a conclusion that waterboarding is torture would be tantamount to a finding that our own services are committing a heinous felony, the equivalent of a war crime, against our own operatives — something I believe it is fair to say Congress cannot possibly have intended.'''''}}
== Examples of terrorists prosecuted as a result of information gained by waterboarding==
== Examples of terrorists prosecuted as a result of information gained by waterboarding==