definitely not what I pictured from the news reports. I thought the victim's face would be placed under flowing water, a tap or hose. Still this looks rather benign on the surface, but the more I think about it and watch his reaction, it really looks horrible.
I imagine it messes with you mind as much as it suffocates or drowns you.
I can't believe how quickly he submitted. But it makes sense after reading this:
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You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it “simulates” the feeling of drowning. This is not the case. You feel that you are drowning because you are drowning—or, rather, being drowned, albeit slowly and under controlled conditions and at the mercy (or otherwise) of those who are applying the pressure. The “board” is the instrument, not the method. You are not being boarded. You are being watered. This was very rapidly brought home to me when, on top of the hood, which still admitted a few flashes of random and worrying strobe light to my vision, three layers of enveloping towel were added. In this pregnant darkness, head downward, I waited for a while until I abruptly felt a slow cascade of water going up my nose. Determined to resist if only for the honor of my navy ancestors who had so often been in peril on the sea, I held my breath for a while and then had to exhale and—as you might expect—inhale in turn. The inhalation brought the damp cloths tight against my nostrils, as if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face. Unable to determine whether I was breathing in or out, and flooded more with sheer panic than with mere water, I triggered the pre-arranged signal and felt the unbelievable relief of being pulled upright and having the soaking and stifling layers pulled off me. I find I don’t want to tell you how little time I lasted.
I don't know what I expected when I heard about waterboarding, but not that. I'm sure that I would be out immediately as it would terrifying. I thought that there would be a lot more water involved though, and that it wouldn't look so tame in some ways.
Micheal Yon wrote an article about torture too. Basically said that the US shouldn't be making it legal because it separates, or SHOULD separate the US from the 'terrorists.'
And in the circumstance where the interrogator DOES use it...and it DOES prevent an imminent attack, the President can pardon him later on.
But it shouldn't be legal. And he states some pretty good reasons for it.
Bah. He's just not trained for something like that. I bet a person could be taught how to deal with that.
IIRC, every single interrogator that uses it as a 'method' to extract information has been put through this before, and every single one of them cracked within 10 seconds. Even despite extensive training on how to resist torture.
Waterboarding - Believe me, It's torture
