“Waterboarding” on The Daily Caller

There is no denying that Denzel Washington is a badass. But for his latest flick, “Safe House,” he took his badassery to a whole new level. (more)

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain expressed disappointment Monday with comments made by several Republican presidential candidates over the weekend during a debate hosted by CBS News and the National Journal. (more)

President Barack Obama, whose decisions led to the death of Osama bin Laden, did his nation a great service, performed an important task in the War on Terror, and will secure for himself a place in history for doing so. (more)

George W. Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland after human rights groups pressed for the former president’s arrest on torture charges, the Guardian reports. (more)

Full story: Who’s Threatening Your Civil Rights Now? – Ricochet.com (more)

Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice that many international legal experts say was illicit torture. (more)

A 22-year-old Lincoln man accused of waterboarding his girlfriend has been charged with false imprisonment, domestic assault and making terroristic threats. (more)

In House Judiciary Committee testimony released yesterday, former Bush DOJ lawyer Jay Bybee said he hadn’t authorized all of the enhanced interrogation techniques the CIA used — a point that is at the heart of the criminal investigation into the CIA’s use of torture. (more)

Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle said Monday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has “waterboarded” the economy. (more)

A prominent human rights group accused the CIA of conducting illegal human experiments and unethical medical research during interrogations of high-profile terrorism suspects under the George W. Bush administration. (more)

MI5 would have acted on the intelligence gained by waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the September 11 attacks, even if they had known how it was gained, sources say. (more)

Baroness Manningham-Buller said she only discovered that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times when the US Justice Department released a memo last year and it was reported in the press. (more)

No one has been more active in the Democrats’ war against our intelligence community than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (more)

Marc Thiessen begins his new book, “Courting Disaster,” with something of a disclaimer: For reasons of security and classification, he says, he should not have been able to write it. He’s right. He shouldn’t have been able to write it. But I’m glad he did. (more)

An Army sergeant who served in Iraq for 15 months has been restricted to his Washington military base after being accused of waterboarding his 4-year-old daughter because she refused to recite her ABCs. (more)

After five weeks of exercising his “right to remain silent,” the Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has finally begun cooperating, and according to The Washington Post is now “providing FBI interrogators with useful intelligence about his training and contacts.” Administration officials are hawking this development as a vindication of their patient approach to Abdulmutallab’s questioning. The Post even declares that this “[r]esult counters recent criticism of the case’s handling.” (more)