Central Intelligence

Dear Friend, The White House has now admitted to directing the CIA to "waterboard" detainees during interrogations. In case you've lived in a box the past several months, waterboarding is the forced, non-fatal drowning of a prisoner. According to experts (special forces officers who train our soldiers to cope should they be captured by enemies and treated this way), it provokes such a helpless, desperate, terrifying reaction that the subject will say anything at all to stop it. Waterboarding has long been recognized as torture -- an exemplar of torture.