Sen. John McCain said Steven Bradbury, whose legal memos authorized waterboarding, wrote "permission slips for torture." ...

During an interview on Fox News to discuss the 2016 GOP primary, Pete Hegseth and current Newsmax host Carl Higbie were brought on to discuss the candidates' stances on waterboarding and torture.

An curved arrow pointing right. Sen. John McCain said waterboarding would never be reinstated as an interrogation technique, despite President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks that torture works a ...

President Donald Trump drew sharp criticism from both Democrats and Republicans after he left open the possibility that he would support enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.

A Lake County sheriff’s deputy was arrested and subsequently fired last month after he allegedly placed his wife in handcuffs and “waterboarded” her in a bathtub.

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Democrats have criticised Hegseth’s stance on waterboarding. But his statements about the interrogation procedure have been about specific scenarios, some of which predated the 2015 law that ...

and advocated for waterboarding and torture. Jump to section... Trump picked Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense Hegseth has defended Americans accused of war crimes, including the ...

"Waterboarding" is a way of simulating drowning, by pouring liquid over a gagged person's mouth. Prosecutors also said the children had suffered broken limbs and "varying forms of scars".

This has to change." Waterboarding was used as an interrogation process by the CIA in the US, after the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. It was banned as an interrogation technique in ...