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| - Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage, and death. Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years. The term water board torture appears in press reports as early as 1976. The captive's face is usually covered with cloth or some other thin material, and the subject is immobilized on his/her back. Interrogators pour water onto the face
- Waterboarding is the CIA's most egregious known method of interrogation. IT IS TORTURE! STOP BEING LIKE ROGER CLEMENS, MR. MUKASEY AND JUST ADMIT IT! It is the practice ("art" according to Dick Cheney, who has mastered it) of strapping a person to a slab with their head pointed toward the ground, wrapping cellophane around their head and dumping water on them. It simulates drowning, but usually without death, only horrible psychological problems and several broken bones. Those lovely gentlemen in the Spanish Inquisition referred to it rather less euphemistically as "the drowning torture".
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| - Waterboarding is the CIA's most egregious known method of interrogation. IT IS TORTURE! STOP BEING LIKE ROGER CLEMENS, MR. MUKASEY AND JUST ADMIT IT! It is the practice ("art" according to Dick Cheney, who has mastered it) of strapping a person to a slab with their head pointed toward the ground, wrapping cellophane around their head and dumping water on them. It simulates drowning, but usually without death, only horrible psychological problems and several broken bones. Those lovely gentlemen in the Spanish Inquisition referred to it rather less euphemistically as "the drowning torture". It is practiced in the US military base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which somehow negates the fact that it's torture because it's technically in Cuba. So basically, America never went into Iraq in the first place. It is only a war if someone takes buckets of good American dirt and throws them at their enemies. Otherwise, it's just not America attacking. The U.S. State Department has recognized that other techniques that involve submersion of the head of the subject during interrogation would qualify as torture. In its 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the U.S. Department of State formally recognizes "submersion of the head in water" as torture in its examination of Tunisia's poor human rights record, U.S. Department of State, 2005, Tunisia and current US Attorney General, Eric Holder is holding an investigation. [1]
- Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. Waterboarding can cause extreme pain, dry drowning, damage to lungs, brain damage from oxygen deprivation, other physical injuries including broken bones due to struggling against restraints, lasting psychological damage, and death. Adverse physical consequences can manifest themselves months after the event, while psychological effects can last for years. The term water board torture appears in press reports as early as 1976. The captive's face is usually covered with cloth or some other thin material, and the subject is immobilized on his/her back. Interrogators pour water onto the face over the breathing passages, causing an almost immediate gag reflex and creating the sensation for the captive that he is drowning. Victims of waterboarding are at extreme risk of sudden death due to the aspiration of vomitus. Vomitus travels up the esophagus, which can then be inhaled (mostly into the right lung due to its more direct pathway). In the fall of 2007, it was widely reported that the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was using waterboarding on extrajudicial prisoners and that the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice had authorized the procedure among enhanced interrogation techniques. Senator John McCain noted that in World War II, the United States military hanged Japanese soldiers for waterboarding American prisoners of war. The CIA confirmed having used waterboarding on three Al-Qaeda suspects: Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, in 2002 and 2003. In its war on terror, the Bush administration through Jay S. Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, issued in August 2002 and March 2003 what became known in 2004, after being leaked, as the Torture Memos. These legal opinions (including the 2002 Bybee memo) argued for a narrow definition of torture under U.S. law. The first three were addressed to the CIA, which took them as authority to use the described enhanced interrogation techniques (more generally classified as torture) on detainees classified as enemy combatants. In March 2003, John Yoo, the acting Office of Legal Counsel, issued a fourth memo to the General Counsel of DOD, concluding his legal opinion by saying that federal laws related to torture and other abuse did not apply to interrogations overseas, five days before the March 19, 2003 invasion of Iraq. The legal opinions were withdrawn by Jack Goldsmith of the OLC in June 2004 but reaffirmed by the succeeding head of the OLC in December 2004. During the presidency of George W. Bush, U.S. government officials at various times said they did not believe waterboarding to be a form of torture. In January 2009, with a change in administrations, U.S. President Barack Obama banned the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in interrogations of detainees. In April 2009, the U.S. Department of Defense refused to say whether waterboarding is still used for training (e.g. SERE) U.S. military personnel in resistance to interrogation.
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