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Patrick Leahy: “Waterboarding has been recognized to be torture since the time of the Spanish Inquisition.”

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
Waterboarding has been recognized to be torture since the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy highlights the historical recognition of waterboarding as torture.

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