Waterboarding Terror Suspects is Unacceptable for Half of Americans

Most Americans condemn torture, but people are more lenient of it when it is referred to as “enhanced interrogation techniques.” people in the United States condemn the use of waterboarding by the American military and intelligence agencies, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,010 American adults, 49 per cent of respondents disapprove of the practice known as waterboarding—33 per cent of them strongly. Waterboarding consists of a prisoner being ... | Read More