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Is it Torture When Americans Are Waterboarded?

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June 26, 2008

John Yoo spit out a familiar, Mukasey-esque answer when Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) asked if waterboarding is torture if it’s an American soldier being waterboarded.

Yoo answers: “My view now is that it would depend on the circumstances.”

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