Hello:

Tomder cites National Director of Intelligence Admiral Michael McConnell as his source for correcting the recent NIE. He certainly might be right about that.

However, the same day he was telling congress THAT stuff, he was also telling them that if HE were waterboarded, HE would think HE was being tortured.

The next day, after having been roundly beaten up by the dufus in chief, he came back to congress and said what he really meant was that if he were swimming and got water up his nose that it would hurt........... "Yeah, that’s what I meant".

So I ask: Since it's clear that after visiting with the dufus in chief he changed his mind about waterboarding, why wouldn't you think he’d do the same thing about the NIE?

I ask this question knowing that the dufus in chief likes to mold the intel to suit his agenda.

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Fr_Chuck

In fact, yes, most american agents do get waterboarded as part of thier training in torture, just as many are set up in very realistic mock kidnapping and being held prisoner often believing thier partner or the such has been killed or tortured and so on.

And I think the key word to what was said , was that he would think he was being tortured, and yes it is the idea to give the feeling of torture without real torture. Since it is done without long lasting physcial harm to the person.