Waterboarding Is Like ‘Swimming’

Sen. Kit Bond: Waterboarding Is Like ‘Swimming’

Posted by Amanda
December 12, 2007 11:00 am
ThinkProgress

Yesterday on PBS’s Newshour, host Gwen Ifill asked Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) whether waterboarding constitutes torture. Bond replied that the technique is actually more like “swimming“:

GWEN IFILL: Do you think that waterboarding, as I described it, constitutes torture?

SEN. KIT BOND: There are different ways of doing it. It’s like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that’s beside the point. It’s not being used.

Watch it:

Sen. Kit Bond on Waterboarding