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Sen. Kit Bond: Waterboarding Is Like ‘Swimming’
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12-17-2007 10:18 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cb17c081-769e-4585-bc16-ad256d53894d/011557A4-7348-4E07-B97C-3A6FF0DCBF42/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/" style="font-size: 11px;">thinkprogress.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/"><BLOCKQUOTE><P>GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture?</p> <P>SEN. KIT BOND: <STRONG>There are different ways of doing it. It’s like swimming, freestyle, backstroke.</STRONG> The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that’s beside the point. It’s not being used.</P></BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/"><P>Watch it: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/"><DIV id="flvbondwaterboarding32024018246"></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/"><P>Conservatives have <A href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/28/john-ashcroft-ive-got-a-set-of-thumbscrews-with-your-name-on-it/">repeatedly</A> <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/28/ashcroft-waterboarded/">tried</A> to dismiss the seriousness of waterboarding, referring to it as a “<A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/02/conservative-dismisses-waterboarding-as-a-swim-lesson/">swim lesson</A>.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/"><P>There’s no doubt that <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/03/jag-leahy-waterboarding/">waterboarding</A> <A href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/29/politics/main3554687.shtml">is</A> <A href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-jerrold-nadler-and-rep-william-d-delahunt/waterboarding-is-drowning_b_74415.html">torture</A>. There’s also no question that it’s been carried out on detainees. Former CIA interrogator John Kiriakou came out this week and confirmed that in 2002, al Qaeda leader <A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/11/kiriakou-white-house/">Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded</A> on orders from the White House.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/12/bond-waterboarding-swimming/"><H2 id="comments"> <A title="Leave a comment" href="#postcomment">325 Comments »</A> </H2></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/011557A4-7348-4E07-B97C-3A6FF0DCBF42/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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