Friday 16 January 2009

Changes under Obama

Waterboarding is torture, says Obama's choice as justice chief. Compare and contrast:
Barack Obama's incoming administration made a definitive break with that of George Bush yesterday when Eric Holder, nominated as the next attorney-general, defined waterboarding as torture.

and
The vice-president, Dick Cheney, in interviews over the last week, has defended Guantánamo and continues to claim that waterboarding, in which drowning is simulated, does not constitute torture.

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