FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2006 file photo, Richard Armitage speaks at the World and Northeast Asia Peace Forum in Seoul, South Korea. Armitage, former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration, says he would have resigned if he had known the CIA was subjecting terrorism suspects to waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. Armitage told Al Jazeera English television in an interview airing Wednesday April 15, 2009 that waterboarding is torture. However, he said he does not believe CIA officials who engaged in waterboarding and other forms of harsh interrogation should be prosecuted. AP Photo logo AP Photo 7 months ago

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2006 file photo, Richard Armitage speaks at the World and Northeast Asia Peace Forum in Seoul, South Korea. Armitage, former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration, says he would have resigned if he had known the CIA was subjecting terrorism suspects to waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. Armitage told Al Jazeera English television in an interview airing Wednesday April 15, 2009 that waterboarding is torture. However, he said he does not believe CIA officials who engaged in waterboarding and other forms of harsh interrogation should be prosecuted.

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