One democrat I know said the fact that Americans waterboarded a man 86 times means it was torture and therefore people involved should be indicted.
However listening to the Dennis Prager show see dennisprager.townhall.com blog
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 “Dennis Talks to Marc Thiessen” dennisprager.townhall.com
on torture, Thiessen wrote The West Coast Plot: An ‘Inconvenient Truth’ April 25, 2009 , see National Review Online (NRO)
corner.nationalreview.com
and see
The CIA’s Questioning Worked By Marc A. Thiessen
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Washington Post
washingtonpost.com?

Marc Thiessen pointed out that the information that they got from
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) “helped to foil in 2006 an al-Qaeda plot to hijack airplanes leaving London’s Heathrow airport and blow them up over the Atlantic (a plot our intelligence community says was just weeks from execution). “On the radio show he stated that if it took 86 waterboardings to get the information from him, and he asked what makes one think that he would have voluntarily handed over the information if it took 86 waterboardings to get it? Apparently 85 was not enough.