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Rob McElhenney

It just so happens that people aren’t doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn’t necessarily mean that there aren’t aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

– Rob McElhenney

Mike Gallagher

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

– Mike Gallagher

Matt Apuzzo

We’re a country that allowed waterboarding and indefinite detention, and we’re a country where the NYPD Intelligence Division has police files on what Muslims think of the State of the Union address.

– Matt Apuzzo

Malcolm Nance

I know waterboarding is torture because I have been on the giving and receiving end of the practice.

– Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance

Waterboarding is slow-motion suffocation with enough time to contemplate the inevitability of blackout and expiration. Usually, the person goes into hysterics on the board. For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch. If it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia – meaning, the loss of all oxygen to the cells.

– Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance

In the media, waterboarding is called ‘simulated drowning,’ but that’s a misnomer. It does not simulate drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to simulate that. The victim is drowning.

– Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

– Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance

To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of ‘stress and duress’ techniques. The military’s encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.

– Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance

I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a ‘stress demonstrator’ to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.

– Malcolm Nance

Malcolm Nance

Waterboarding should never be used as an interrogation tool. It is beneath our values.

– Malcolm Nance

Jose Rodriguez

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program… tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.

– Jose Rodriguez

Jane Mayer

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

– Jane Mayer

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