October 23, 2007
Is waterboarding torture?
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Does the Pope say mass?
Does a bear sh*t in the woods?
C'mon, fellas! Ask me a hard one.
Other than, perhaps, the rack and thumbscrews, water-boarding is the most iconic example of torture in history. It was devised, I believe, in the Spanish Inquisition.
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Following World War II, the United States prosecuted Japanese military personnel as war criminals for waterboarding U.S. prisoners.
Footnote Note that not a single Republican Senator signed the letter to Mukasey.
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