Re: What About Mukasy\'s Position on Waterboarding?
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Serious, non-sarcastic question: what kind of waterboarding procedure *isn't* torture? I mean, I don't think I need to tell you that if the process *didn't* cause extreme mental duress (regardless of the 'specifics of the process'), it probably wouldn't be used as a means for extracting information.
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You could say the same thing about an interrogation by the police. Why use an interrogation method if it isn't designed to extract information? So you're saying that a legal police interrogation never causes extreme mental duress to the person being interrogated?
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As someone else has pointed out, Americans detained by their local/state/federal law enforcement have the Constitutional right to request a lawyer at any time if they're experiencing extreme duress from a police interrogation method that's too aggressive.
So no, you really *can't* say the same thing about interrogations by the American law enforcement.
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