A senior Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday that laws enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now allowed.
Justice official says waterboarding is no longer allowable
February 15, 2008 at 2:06AM
"The program as it is authorized today does not include waterboarding," Steven Bradbury, acting head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, told the House subcommittee on the Constitution.
It is the first time the department has expressed such an opinion publicly.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military denied a report by law school researchers that it had videotaped thousands of interrogation sessions at the Guantanamo military base in Cuba.
U.S. authorities did not routinely videotape interrogations there, contrary to the claim in a report by Seton Hall University's Center for Policy and Research, said Navy Cmdr. Rick Haupt, a spokesman for the military task force that runs the detention center.
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