Only this time, if the reports turn out to be true, it's Americans being waterboarded by ISIS. Pity we couldn't have offered them Bush and Cheney in exchange for our journalist hostages who are waterboarded before being beheaded, according to the latest reports.
James Foley was among the four who were waterboarded several times by Islamic State militants who appeared to model the technique on the CIA’s use of waterboarding to interrogate suspected terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Waterboarding often involves strapping a person down on a gurney or bench and pouring cold water over a cloth covering the face. It causes the sensation of drowning. “The wet cloth creates a barrier through which it is difficult — or in some cases not possible — to breathe,” according to a Justice Department memo in May 2005 about the CIA’s use of the technique.
President Obama has condemned waterboarding as torture.
“They knew exactly how it was done,” a person with direct knowledge of what happened to the hostages said of the Islamic State militants. ...WaPo
Hey. They had great teachers.
