japanese waterboarding

Some of the best brains in the United States, together with some of the weaker ones, have combined recently to try to decide whether “japanese waterboarding” is or is not a form of torture. Japanese Waterboarding makes the subject think he's drowning. It's banned by domestic law and international treaties. President George W. Bush's administration won't say whether it has been allowed against imprisoned suspected terrorists, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey's nomination was almost derailed in the Senate because of his refusal to equate waterboarding with torture.