So how close is this method to the stuff the CIA was doing to those “High Value Detainees” overseas? There are lots of different ways to “Waterboard”. The CIA method does not put water inside the nose or mouth. The method shown here does.

It would be better if we had an agreed-on definition of “Torture” before this issue came up. As it is, we are all winging it.

There are two essential issues nearly everyone misses:
1. What treaties applied to the people we interrogated? Remember, the “Geneva Conventions” are treaties between sovereign nations.

2. How do these enemies of ours treat our prisoners, especially any “High Value” prisoners they may hold? Do they even have any? Do they keep their treaty obligations?

Any discussion that leaves out these two issues is not complete, and is probably just posturing.

If two kids after school get into a fight, and one kid makes the other say “Uncle”, is that torture? Isn’t that what the video showed?