MADRID — A high-profile Spanish judge has initiated a possible ... opinions that created the Guantanamo prison, justified harsh interrogation tactics and found that captured Al Qaeda suspects ...

Waterboarding, a controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning, dates back to at least the Spanish Inquisition, and has been used some of the world's cruelest dictatorships ...

The practice of waterboarding, for instance, was closely associated with the Spanish Inquisition ... as a means of preparing prisoners for interrogation. The Soviets used the motto “no blood, no shame ...