Waterbording

“It's a no-brainer for me.”

— Vice President Cheney
Stating that the Bush Administration has used a technique known as waterboarding and that they don't consider it to be torture. The U.S. Army, senior Republican lawmakers, human rights experts and many experts on the laws of war, however, consider waterboarding cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment that's banned by U.S. law and by international treaties that prohibit torture