water board
Simulated drowning interrogation
Water board has two distinct meanings.
As a noun, a water board is a regional authority that manages water supply and sewage services: The water board announced rate increases.
As a verb, to waterboard is to simulate drowning as an interrogation technique—restraining someone face-up, covering their face, and pouring water over it to induce panic and a sensation of suffocation.
The technique became controversial during debates over U.S. interrogation practices: Critics argued that to waterboard a detainee constitutes torture.
- enhanced interrogationEuphemism for abusive questioning
- tortureDeliberate infliction of suffering
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
- drowningDeath by water inhalation
- suffocationFatal lack of air
CIA · detention · prisoner · confession · simulated · cloth · face · pour · gasping · breath · utility · public utility · district · agency · municipal · reservoir · supply · treatment
- government bodiesagency, bureau, legislature, department, ministry
- California governmentstate constitution, legislature, executive branch, judicial branch, governor
- local electionscounty commissioner, city council, town council, municipal election, local races
- Low CountriesNetherlands, Belgium, Holland, Amsterdam, Brussels
- town committeesbudget committee, finance committee
- water managementdam, irrigation, watershed, cistern, drainage
water boardhumane treatment
Kind consideration for welfare
due process · prisoner rights · protect · care for · respect