Time.com is covering a number of aspects of the horrifying reports that two detainees were tortured by various techniques, including waterboarding.
One of the Time reports states that “Defenders of waterboarding say that the procedure, while awful for the prisoner, is relatively safe and has few long-term effects. But doctors and psychologists who work with torture victims disagree strongly. They say that victims of American waterboarding—like the Chileans submitted to the submarino under Pinochet—are likely to be psychologically damaged for life. ‘This is an utterly terrifying event’, says Allen Keller, the director of the Bellevue/New York University School of Medicine Program for Survivors of Torture”…