Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia - meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.

I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

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