The first head of the Department of Homeland Security - Tom Ridge - has agreed with the recent report by the International Commission of Jurists which said that anti-terror measures worldwide had seriously undermined international human rights law.
Ridge also said that even terrorism suspects are entitled to due process.
And Ridge acknowleged that waterboarding is torture.
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