Oh, just some Saturday night antics. Fun times.
Three Young Men Try Waterboarding And Tell the Tale
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
January 31, 2008; Page A1
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — One night last month, Jean-Pierre Larroque drove into the desert here, lay down in the road and waited for one of his best friends to waterboard him.
Just a few hours earlier, the 26-year-old Peace Corps volunteer had been debating with two close friends whether waterboarding is torture. Finishing up a pizza dinner, Mr. Larroque casually suggested that the three settle the matter by trying it out for themselves.
They filled a two-liter Coke bottle with water, grabbed a small towel and headed to a vacant patch of dirt road in this suburb of Albuquerque. With a video camera rolling, one of the friends draped the towel over Mr. Larroque’s face and began to pour.
Waterboarding is the centerpiece of a bitter political debate about the Bush administration’s methods of interrogating terrorist suspects. The nomination of Attorney General Michael Mukasey was almost derailed by his refusal to take a clear stance on the technique, and Mr. Mukasey angered Democratic lawmakers anew yesterday by again refusing to say whether waterboarding is illegal.
Yes, dumbasses. It’s torture.
