Waterboarding would be torture to me: U.S. spy chief

[struggle4progress]

Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:48pm ES

... Asked if waterboarding -- the practice of covering a person's face with a cloth and then dripping water on it to bring on a feeling of drowning -- fit that definition, McConnell said that for him personally, it would.

"If I had water draining into my nose, oh God, I just can't imagine how painful!" McConnell said in the article. "Whether it's torture by anybody else's definition, for me it would be torture."

But he rejected a suggestion that he personally condemned the practice ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1334174820080114

If ya does it t'me, it's torcha; if I does it t'ya, den maybe dat's a diffrint ball-o-wax

[annabanana]

1. "HEY! That's OFF THE RECORD, guys!"

Officially I have no idea whether it's torture or not....