Waterboarding is a method that has been described as torture.

水刑是一种折磨罪犯的酷刑。

More brutal than was already known, like waterboarding? What were people doing?

像水刑这种酷刑要比我们知道的更残忍吗？他们是怎么做的？

There has been much criticism of waterboarding in the U.S.

在美国，水刑一直以来备受争议。

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and senator Ted Cruz have said they might end the ban on waterboarding.

共和党候选人特朗普和科鲁兹或将有可能恢复水刑。

So basically we're just waterboarding a baby.

所以基本上我们就是水刑刑求这宝宝。

Mr. McCain forced Mr. Bush to accept legislation intended to ban the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods.

麦凯恩先生迫使布什先生接受了禁止使用水刑和其他严酷审讯的立法。

" Absolutely, I would not agree to having any CIA officer carrying out waterboarding again, " he said in an interview with NBC News.

在接受NBC新闻采访时，他表示“当然，我也决不允许任何中情局人员擅自使用这种刑讯方式。”

In an apparent reference to Republican presidential hopeful who've advocated the use of waterboarding, Mr Kerry emphasized that there was no place for torture anywhere.

克里显然是在暗指一位支持使用水刑的共和党总统候选人，他强调说酷刑这种行为是无处容身的。

CIA director John Brennan says his agency will not use waterboarding or other so-called " Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" , even if a future president orders it.

据中情局局长约翰·布伦南表示，即使下任总统命令如此，中情局也不会施用水刑或其它所谓“强化审讯手段”。

John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, says the CIA would not use waterboarding even if a future president ordered the method to be used.

美国中情局局长约翰·布伦南表示，即使未来的总统下令，中情局也不会再执行这一酷刑。

But everything I learned about interrogation then tells me that all the rough stuff that we've heard about, the really awful stuff - the waterboarding, the torture - is quite useless.

但我从审讯中学到的一切都告诉我，我们听说过的所有粗暴的事情，真正可怕的事情——水刑、酷刑——都是毫无用处的。

What makes me afraid of these this procedure is the following: do you remember how to years ago or even three or four when all this debate about torture began, waterboarding and so on?

是什么让我害怕这些程序如下：你还记得几年前甚至三四年前所有关于酷刑、水刑等的辩论是如何开始的吗？