Roberto Abraham Scaruffi: Obama: 'I believe waterboarding was torture, and it was a mistake'

Thursday 30 April 2009

Obama: 'I believe waterboarding was torture, and it was a mistake'

Barack Obama has rejected the former US vice-president Dick Cheney's defence of waterboarding, citing the refusal of the then British prime minister, Winston Churchill, to resort to torture even at the height of the Blitz in the second world war.