Leaked CIA memo exposes US terror suspect torture as 'war crimes'

Published: 17 April, 2012, 12:36

The US is refraining from defining waterboarding and other questionable interrogation methods it used to apply to terrorist suspects as torture, possibly with a view to using them once again someday.

Years after the Bush administration left office, many feel President Obama is not doing enough to make up for America's past mistakes. This includes torture treatment of terrorist suspects by the US investigators.

Such torture techniques include waterboarding, stress positions and other methods of interrogation welcomed into American secret service after 9/11 paved the way for the War on Terror.

Former US President George W. Bush once soothed the nation that “The American people need to know we're using techniques within the law to protect them.”

Two years after George W. Bush left the White House, the former commander-in-chief admitted his stamp of approval for the use of interrogation techniques like waterboarding, dubbed inhuman and illegal under US law and the Geneva Conventions.

Why did George W. Bush consider waterboarding legal?

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