Obama gov't will not use 'waterboarding' - Holder

Mon Mar 2, 2009 2:44pm GMT

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ruled out the use of "waterboarding" as an interrogation technique for terrorism suspects on Monday, calling it a form of torture that the Obama administration could never condone.

"Waterboarding is torture ... My Justice Department will not justify it, will not rationalize it and will not condone it," Holder, who his heading a review of the treatment of terrorism suspects, said in a speech to the Jewish Council of Public Affairs in Washington. (Reporting by Randall Mikkelsen; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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