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"Water-boarding is torture... It's drowning. It gives you the complete sensation that you are drowning. It is no good, because you -- I'll put it to you this way; you give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."
-- Former Governor Jesse Ventura, an ex-Seal who endured waterboarding as part of his training

Russet said there are descriptions, or maybe photos, of people who endured water-boarding at the hands of the Khmer Rouge who broke bones in the hands and feet trying to get free of it. NPR interviewed a military interrogator who went in with his copy of the Quran and read passages and asked questions of his detainees and got actionable intelligence that resulted in the capture of high-level AQ operatives.
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