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If you don't accept the potential for injury from water boarding your not certainly not qualified to define the limits of it's use! Wikipedia's definition stands, in all it's horror, when waterboarding is done without guidelines.

The argument would be better served by stating the benevolent CIA carried it out to limits carefully prescribed by the Government and the 'torture' was surpervised by a doctor to assure the torturee was not seriously injured, or was just 'slightly injured'. Did they cross the line? THATS why we need an investigation, not necessarily a prosecution.

At any rate, the Government does not support waterboarding at the present time, for multiple and various reasons. I don't have a position on that. But I'm not going to bury my head in the sand and justify waterboarding as little more than a swimming exercise either! Just trying to keep the facts straight.