[Mb-civic] Torture Becomes a Matter of Definition

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Torture Becomes a Matter of Definition 
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Bush nominees refuse to say what's prohibited. U.S. dilemma is that it wants to disavow abuse but retain leeway in pressuring suspects.

By Sonni Efron
Times Staff Writer

January 23 2005

WASHINGTON — The question Democratic senators put to Condoleezza Rice last week seemed easy enough to answer: Did the secretary of State nominee consider interrogation practices such as "water-boarding," in which a prisoner is made to believe he will drown, to be torture? 

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