音标:['wɔ:təbɔ:dɪŋ] ;
n. 水刑

Youve heard of waterboarding used as a means to get suspected terrorists to talk. Some people object to such methods on the grounds that they amount to torture. But in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, psychologist Shane OMara of Trinity Coll

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(402) / 评论(0) 分类 Scientific American(九)月

AS IT IS 2016-04-12 CIA Director Says No More Waterboarding 美国中情局长指 即使总统下令也不用水刑 The CIA will not use waterboarding to get information from a detainee anymore. Waterboarding is a method that has been described as to

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Should We Torture Suspects for Information? 我们应该拷问嫌疑犯的信息吗? People are divided about whether governments should torture people suspected of terrorism. Torture involves severe physical or emotional pain to gain information f

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 February 2008 The director of the Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that his agency used the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three terrorism suspects nearly five years ago. In testimon

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 11 December 2007 The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, briefed members of Congress Tuesday about the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of terror suspect interrogations. His appearance

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 07 February 2008 Lawmakers pressed the U.S. attorney general on Thursday for more specifics about the legal justifications used by the Bush administration in authorizing the past use of the extreme interrogation technique

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By Deborah Tate Washington 13 February 2008 The U.S. Senate has defied a veto threat from President Bush and approved legislation that would prohibit intelligence agencies from using extreme interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. The meas

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By Jim Fry Washington 05 December 2007 Two Republican Party candidates for U.S. president disagreed sharply last week on the use a controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding. While much of the campaign focuses on domestic issues, ca

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(349) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

1. A US Airways jet has crashed into the Hudson River right next to Manhattan. Passengers were forced out into the freezing waters to escape. Officials say it went down right after taking off. 2. Roland Burris is officially a US senator. He was swor

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1. Secretary of state John Kerry and foreign ministers from the G7 industrialized nations are meeting in Hiroshima , Japan. They visited a memorial for the atomic bombing Hiroshima became the end of World War II. 2. CIA director John Brennan says his

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And Ryan Reynolds is a young,like a CIA guy. Rayan Reynolds演一个年轻的中情局特工 They bring me to his safe house,where he's sitting and waiting for someone to be brought there. 他们把我带到他的藏身之所 在那他坐等有人被带

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The U.S. Senate has defied a veto threat from President Bush and approved legislation that would prohibit intelligence agencies from using extreme interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. The measure was included in a bill to authorize inte

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By Paula Wolfson White House 06 February 2008 The White House is defending the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding in certain, rare circumstances when suspects are believed to have knowledge of an imminent threat. VOA's Paula Wo

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