Re: After Sharp Words on C.I.A., Obama Faces a Delicate Task

Yesterday, in reporting on the CIA, the New York Times described “waterboarding, the near-drowning tactic considered by many legal authorities to be torture”.  What in heavens name is a “near-drowning tactic”?  It is “coercion” better known as forcing someone to do what you want under pain and fear of frightful death against their will.  It is time to call a spade a spade, and not an “object many authorities consider to be a hand-powered digging implement”. 

Waterboarding is cruel even if the Bush administration tried to make it not unusual.  Waterboarding is torture and illegal under US law and treaties and the US Constitution and you need to say so.

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