Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice that many international legal experts say was illicit torture.Ha ha. Consequences for George W. Bush? Cute.
In a memoir due out Tuesday, Bush makes clear that he personally approved the use of that coercive technique against alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an admission the human rights experts say could one day have legal consequences for him.
Torturer-in-Chief
I'm shocked; SHOCKED, I tell you: In new memoir, Bush makes clear he approved use of waterboarding.
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