Commentaries by Jordan J. Paust

Waterboarding Is Decidedly and Manifestly Torture

April 23, 2016 01:57:16 pm

JURIST Guest Colomnist Jordan J. Paust, the Mike & Teresa Baker Professor at the Law Center at the University of Houston, discusses how waterboarding is a form of torture...Professor Jeffrey Addicott has made false statements about Bush/Cheney interrogation tactics in...

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