The US based Human Rights First has drafted a step by step strategy for the next US president to end the use of torture as a means to gather information.
Aside from the obvious recommendations of renouncing the use of torture, HR First recommends establishing a National Security Advisor tasked to fully document and expose the mandates that circumvented laws on the humane treatment of individuals.
In March, Bush vetoed anti-torture legislation that would have outlawed the use of waterboarding and other interrogation techniques by the CIA. At the time, US General David H. Petraeus said the use of water boarding would increase the risks of torture for future American prisoners of war.
Writer Christopher Hitchens submitted himself to waterboarding and wrote about the experience in Vanity Fair.
