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US has been criticized for using waterboarding as a coercive interrogation technique, on the grounds that it amounts to torture
The US has been accused of using torture, such as [[waterboarding]] <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1933315,00.html</ref>, as an interrogation method at the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1981955,00.html]</ref> <ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=377623&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490]</ref> <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3706050.stm]</ref> and also kidnapping people of Middle Eastern descent in a process known as [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6359875.stm extraordinary rendition].
The US has been criticized for using [[waterboarding]] as a [[coercive interrogation]] technique, on the grounds that it amounts to [[torture]].<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1933315,00.html</ref>,
as an interrogation method at the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,1981955,00.html]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=377623&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490]</ref>
<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3706050.stm]</ref> and also kidnapping people of Middle Eastern descent in a process known as [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6359875.stm extraordinary rendition].
The US maintains that its [[coercive interrogation]] techniques are not "[[torture]]" (see [[McCain Amendment]]).
The US maintains that its [[coercive interrogation]] techniques are not "[[torture]]" (see [[McCain Amendment]]).