Wallach: Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime

Students in Münster have the privilege of selecting from a wide range of elective courses during their final two semesters of the FFA. One class offered every winter semester is The Law of War, taught by U.S. Federal Judge Evan Wallach. I've sat in on this class before and I can tell you that it is both timely and fascinating. As a federal judge, Judge Wallach likely feels somewhat constrained as to what he can say about the current "war on terror" being conducted by the Bush Administration. That's what makes his opinion piece that appeared in yesterday's Washington Post extraordinary. As I wrote last week, the issue of whether an interrogation technique called waterboarding is torture has been the focus of the U.S. Attorney General nomination hearings currently taking place in Washington D.C.. Judge Wallach weighs in on this debate with an emphatic YES.