Waterboarding: The Song

Watch and be astounded by the legal “reasoning” involved in the claim that waterboarding—deliberately initiating the sensation of drowning—does not involve inflicting severe suffering on the waterboarding victim:

To state the obvious, if you’re doing something to someone such that the idea is that it’s so unpleasant that they’ll do whatever you want to get them to stop, then the amount of suffering you’re inflicting has to be pretty severe. The point of waterboarding, according to the memos, is that it puts a lot of coercive power in the hands of the interrogator. It does so by inflicting “severe suffering.” There’s no other way for it to work.