Ban Torture

This is a parody video but a useful visual demonstration. Not suitable for children.

Note: in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on February 14, 2008, , the acting chief of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, Steven G. Bradbury, stated that when the CIA waterboards, we’re not talking about “the forced consumption of mass amounts of water,” “large amounts of water in the lungs,” or “the imposition of weight or pressure.”

What it is:

• Wikipedia
• Waterboarding: A Tortured History, by Eric Weiner, NPR, November 3, 2007
• Excellent overview by BBC on March 9, 2008
• waterboarding.org
  • what it is
  • how to do it
  • history

Another analysis and demonstration from current.com, including interviews with Alan Dershowitz and Juliette Kayyem. The referenced 2002 memo (the Bybee memo) was reversed in 2004 (the Levin DAG memo).