Tom Ridge: Waterboarding Is Torture

January 18, 2008
Tom Ridge: Waterboarding Is Torture

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first secretary of the Homeland Security Department says
waterboarding is torture.

"There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is
torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview with the Associated Press. Ridge had offered the
same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security
conference.