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The use of [[Waterboarding]] as an interrogation method is a case where a tactic that led to the war-crime prosecution of a Japanese officer for using it on Americans in WWII <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html Waterboarding Historically Controversial]</ref> was sanctioned by the administration of President [[George W. Bush]] for use on for high-value terror suspects.  The moral issues in this case are defining when an interrogation technique crosses the line from appropriate to inhumane (torture), and to what extent the risks of a clear and present danger to a nation justify the use of questionably inhumane methods to save innocent lives.

The use of [[Waterboarding]] as an interrogation method is a case where a tactic that led to the war-crime prosecution of a Japanese officer for using it on Americans in WWII <ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html Waterboarding Historically Controversial]</ref> was sanctioned by the administration of President [[George W. Bush]] for use on for high-value terror suspects.  The moral issues in this case are defining when an interrogation technique crosses the line from appropriate to inhumane (torture), and to what extent the risks of a clear and present danger to a nation justify the use of questionably inhumane methods to save innocent lives.

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