We used to (maybe), but we don't anymore (honest!)... and, besides, it was all legal (trust me)

Negroponte: US Has Used Waterboarding In The Past - AFP
WSJ, 28 Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP)--Former U.S. spy chief John Negroponte admitted that the U.S. has used a controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding but does not anymore, according to a published interview Monday.

... BUT: don't worry!

Attorney general says CIA interrogations legal
By Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters
29 Jan 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA's current techniques for interrogating terrorism suspects are legal and do not include a widely condemned method known as waterboarding, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Congress on Tuesday.

Mukasey declined, however, in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on the eve of testimony before the panel, to say whether he considered waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, to be illegal.

There. Don't you feel better now?

This isn't quite, "If the President does it, it's not illegal", but it's pretty darn close!

Why are we having this discussion? What has become of our country?

Stop the madness!