A happy trip to waterboard land

Waterboarding is a form of torture that consists of immobilizing a person on their back with the head inclined downward (the Trendelenburg position), and pouring water over the face and into the breathing   more...passages. Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning and is made to believe that death is imminent. In contrast to merely submerging the head face-forward, waterboarding almost immediately elicits the gag reflex. Although waterboarding does not always cause lasting physical damage, it carries the risks of extreme pain, damage to the lungs, brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation, injuries (including broken bones) due to struggling against restraints, and even death. The psychological effects on victims of waterboarding can last for years after the procedure.

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A routine CIA information and recruitment session was suddenly disrupted on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara Thursday when a small group of student protestors walked in and lead   more...a man with bound hands to the front of the room, where he was laid on a table and (voluntarily*) tortured with a CIA-approved technique used to simulate drowning, known as water-boarding. The CIA speakers were struggling to speak over the "torture victim's" coughs and cries for help, while potential CIA recruits looked on with bewilderment at the incident  less

Strong words…Keith Olbermann comments on Pres. Bush and Michael Mukasey’s response to allegations of waterboarding in the Bush administration. Why was an Acting Assistant Attorney General forced out –   more...just because he had the guts to do what Pres. Bush couldn't?

Discusses Daniel Levin, a former top official in Bush’s Justice Department, isn’t exactly a household name, but his story is worth considering. As the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2004, Levin recognized interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration were pushing the legal envelope, and became so concerned about waterboarding that he experienced it personally so he could report on its application.  less

On November 4, 2007, CODEPINK activists re-enacted a live waterboarding demonstration for Senator Feinstein as she entered CNN studios in Washington, DC

Christopher Hitchens, a heretofore left-winger-turned-shill-for-the-neocons had asserted that waterboarding was not torture until, to his credit, he volunteered to try it himself for a Vanity Fair feature.   more...His conclusion? "Believe me, it's torture. However, Hitchens’ waterboarding only last 2 mins. When Current TV’s Kaj Larsen investigated the practice of waterboarding, his experience lasted 24 mins. See the full video at www.current.com/kajwaterboarded and decide if this interrogation practice allegedly used by the U.S. government is a legitimate technique or torture?  less

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Stephen Colbert on the big brother society; from The Daily Show.


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