Former Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge: Waterboarding is torture.

Former Bush official: Waterboarding is torture
‘No doubt,’ says Tom Ridge, first Homeland Security secretary

"There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference.

"One of America's greatest strengths is the soft power of our value system and how we treat prisoners of war, and we don't torture," Ridge said in the interview. Ridge was secretary of the Homeland Security Department between 2003 and 2005. "And I believe, unlike others in the administration, that waterboarding was, is — and will always be — torture. That's a simple statement."

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A former Bush WH official who now has no power says that waterboarding is torture.

Gee, call up the Profiles in Courage award people.

of their own and they will be fielding questions about it- plus it keeps the issue in the forefront.

eh?

we have tortured
we are currently torturing
we will continue to torture

this should be a question for all presidential candidates

'will you continue the bu$h* policy of torture'?????

..even if it's a "former Bush official."

Bush and his gang of thugs have been dancing around this issue for too long.