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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.'''''}}
Top Secret government memos from the Bush era frivolously released by the Obama administration in 2009 reveal that both legal experts and doctors have concluded that waterboarding does not constitute torture, and it has been approved as an enhanced interrogation technique for high value detainees. Many terrorist attacks, including a conspiracy to mimic the 9/11 attacks in Los Angeles, have been prevented through the use of waterboarding.
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