about how much information they got from these kind of tactics. here it is. people are equating waterboarding with torture. and i think that s a mistake. the president of the united states authorized the waterboarding. it was done to three people by the cia, not by the military, and it produced an enormous amount of very, very valuable intelligence information. mr. carle, from your research is that comment correct? no, i think that it s not. it s a little bit like laurence olivier playing a dentist to dustin hoffman in marathon man and drilling a hole through someone s tooth but saying no pain, no pain. it simply is wrong. if you define waterboarding not as torture when you say that, well, it s not torture because i defined it not as torture, but it is. but the fact that it transgresses the uniform code of military justice, the convention against torture.
are they legal. mr. carle, this is donald rumsfeld from earlier tonight on fox telling bill o reilly this about how much information they got from these kind of tactics. here it is. people are equating waterboarding with torture. and i think that s a mistake. the president of the united states authorized the waterboarding. it was done to three people by the cia, not by the military, and it produced an enormous amount of very, very valuable intelligence information. mr. carle, from your research is that comment correct? no, i think that it s not. it s a little bit like laurence olivier playing a dentist to dustin hoffman in marathon man and drilling a hole through someone s tooth but saying no pain, no pain. it simply is wrong. if you define waterboarding not as torture when you say that, well, it s not torture because i defined it not as torture, but