With the parade of administration officials who’ve testified about waterboarding in the past several weeks — that it was once legal, but is not anymore (though it could be found legal again); that it may “feel like” torture, but that doesn’t mean it is torture; that as the U.S. practices it, it bears no relation to the technique used by the Spanish Inquisition (it’s more in line with the Khmer Rouge way of doing things) — you can be excused for feeling more than a little confused.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178294