Daniel Levin, then acting assistant attorney general, went to a military base near Washington and underwent the procedure to inform his analysis of different interrogation techniques.
After the experience, Levin told White House officials that even though he knew he wouldn't die, he found the experience terrifying and thought that it clearly simulated drowning.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/DOJ/story?id=3814076&page=1
WASHINGTON - A former interrogation instructor for the Navy said the words Thursday that congressional Democrats wanted to hear from Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey: "Waterboarding is torture, period."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_go_co/congress_torture_6
As Keith Olbermann said, "..There are rules. And even if we just make up these rules, this country observes them anyway because we're Americans, sir. And we're better than that and we're better than you..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=arWJ358tZgU
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