Jessie Ventura, Waterboarding, and Dick Cheney
"You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."
Let's remember that Jessie Ventura, as crazy as he is, is a Navy S.E.A.L. who knows what he's talking about when it comes to waterboarding and whether it's torture.
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"You give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders. ~ JV"
So the solution would be to release the information on the effectiveness of the water boarding. Ventura might be able to get Dick Cheney to confess to the Tate murder but what proof could he provide afterwards? None. But you can bet that the information gained in GTMO and use of that information is well documented. So why can’t we see for ourselves how effective it was?
I'm all for full disclosure. And I'd be curious to see what information we obtained from interrogation techniques that were not "enhanced" by waterboarding. There's pretty convincing evidence already that these prisoners gave up everything they knew well before being waterboarded.
Even still, this argument insists that waterboarding (or any torture, for that matter) is justified if it produces the right evidence. Before now, we have always considered waterboarding violation of the law and a prosecutable offense. There are even clear legal precedents within the United States Justice system that specifically hold waterboarding to be illegal. As Jesse Venture says: waterboarding is torture and torture is against the law.
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