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Title: Laying the Groundwork for a Defense Against Participation in Torture?(Policy & Politics)
Author : The Hastings Center Report
Release Date : January 01, 2008
Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
Pages : * pages
Size : 171 KB

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According to the former chief of training at the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school, waterboarding is a "controlled drowning" that "occurs under the watch of a doctor, a psychologist, an interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team." When waterboarding is used as part of mock interrogations during SERE training, "A team doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological signs which show when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological experience to horrific, suffocating punishment, to the final death spiral." (1) Since waterboarding entails introducing liquid into the airway and risks letting water get sucked into the lungs, if it is to be demonstrated at all it makes sense for it to be done under close medical supervision. After all, a mock interrogatee could potentially die during waterboarding, even if only by accident.