re: #13 I’m a Mavrik!

And it’s still popular enough among likely enemies that our people train very hard to resist torture interrogations. Our special forces guys all get the waterboard as part of training. SERE level C as I recall. It’s not easy to square up the Reuters report and that fact.

I really hate to see “if torture works or not’ conflated with the topic of America ever being right in sanctioning it. I’m feeling really sure about three things. (1) I must admit waterboarding would probably work on me the first time and (2) we must never ever do that again. (3) Renditions are outsourced torture.

If a US operator ever decides torture is the way to save the day, he can damn well plan on sacrificing his freedom for life for doing or ordering torture. Whether it works or not!