Curiouser and curiouser

Here's a curious position to take. Mike McConnell says waterboarding would be torture if it were used on him, but he can't say whether it would be torture in general. Hmmmm.

WASHINGTON - The nation's intelligence chief says waterboarding "would be torture" if used against him or if someone under interrogation actually was taking water into his lungs.

But Mike McConnell, in a magazine interview, declined for legal reasons to say whether the technique categorically should be considered torture.