Last month the director of the CIA cast doubt on the legality of / waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning and whose opponents say amounts to torture.

• 中央情报局领导人曾与上月对水刑的合法性提出质疑，这项技术的使用会加速溺水事件的发生，一些反对者说它可以说是一种折磨。