Our current nominee-for-head-lawyer says he doesn't have enough info to decide if waterboarding is torture. Rudy say's it depends on who's doing it. Our president won't say anything excpet that we don't torture (the definiton there being 'if we do it then it's not torture').
Theodore Roosevelt had this to say about it:
"The president desires to know in the fullest and most circumstantial manner all the facts, ... for the very reason that the president intends to back up the Army in the heartiest fashion in every lawful and legitimate method of doing its work; he also intends to see that the most vigorous care is exercised to detect and prevent any cruelty or brutality and that men who are guilty thereof are punished. Great as the provocation has been in dealing with foes who habitually resort to treachery, murder and torture against our men, nothing can justify or will be held to justify the use of torture or inhuman conduct of any kind on the part of the American Army,”
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