Bush help Karl Rove insists waterboarding is not torture

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George W Bush"s former tip confidant has pronounced he is "proud" of the have make use of of of oppressive inquire techniques - together with waterboarding - during the War on Terror.

Karl Rove, the Republican strategist at large well known as "Bush"s Brain", pronounced in a BBC talk that he did not hold waterboarding, or unnatural drowning, amounted to torture.

"I"m unapproachable that we used techniques that pennyless the will of these terrorists and gave us profitable report that authorised us to foil plots such as drifting aeroplanes in to Heathrow and in to London, bringing down aircraft over the Pacific, drifting an aeroplane in to the tallest construction in Los Angeles and alternative plots," Mr Rove told the BBC.

"Yes, I"m unapproachable that we kept the universe safer than it was, by the have make use of of of these techniques. They"re appropriate, they"re in consent with the general mandate and with US law."

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Mr Rove gave the talk to symbol the announcement of a discourse - Courage and Consequence - in that he argues that story will see agreeably on Mr Bushs two-term presidency, quite his preference to wage fight Iraq.

In the book he calls the 2003 advance the majority material action of the Bush presidency and a pardonable reply to the apprehension attacks of Sep 11, 2001 - even though al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, not Saddam Hussein, were responsible.

Mr Rove admits in the discourse that the disaster to find weapons of mass drop after the advance of Iraq had really bad shop-worn the credit of the Bush Administration.

He blames himeslf, as the White House"s tip domestic confidant at the time, for not carrying pushed behind opposite claims that Mr Bush had taken the nation to fight underneath fake pretences.

The use of waterboarding - effectively authorised by a array of authorised memos from the White House in 2002 - was one of the majority argumentative aspects of the fight opposite terrorism.

The afterwards Director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, told Congress in 2008 that waterboarding had usually ever been used on 3 comparison al-Qaeda detainees and not given 2003. The use was strictly criminialized by President Obama last year.

In his BBC interview, Mr Rove was asked either he thought waterboarding was torture. "No it"s not," he said.

"People need to review the memos that outline what was slight and not slight prior to they have a settlement about these things.

Every one of the people who were waterboarded had a alloy who had to discern that there had been no long-lasting earthy or mental repairs to the individual."

Mr Rove pronounced US soldiers were subjected to waterboarding as a unchanging piece of their training. A less serious form of the technique was used on the 3 suspects - together with the purported 9/11 tract personality Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - interrogated at the US troops jail at Guantanamo Bay, he added.

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