Water Torture in Vietnam. For more than a decade, I’ve investigated atrocities committed during the Vietnam War. In that time, I’ve come to know people who employed water torture and people ...

Water pipes running through interior walls can be troublemakers, because they can’t easily be inspected. Any home built prior to 1970 or 1975 probably has galvanized piping, Smith said.

During the Spanish Inquisition, water torture was one of an array of means of forcing unfortunates to confess to purportedly heretical thoughts and actions. By the 16 th century, ...

Waterboarding: A Tortured History The current debate over waterboarding may be new, but the practice is not. It predates the Inquisition and has been used, off and on, around the world ever since ...

On a sunny June day in 1950, Russell Tongay plopped his two towheaded children into the murk of the Mississippi River, 22 miles upstream from St. Louis. Russell Jr., known as Bubba, 4, and Kathy, 2… ...

Although waterboarding has been considered torture for over a century and the US military is banned from using it, controversy over its continuing use by the CIA may be about to derail the ...

Kidnapping and torture are both severe violations of our federal law and of international law, and are addressed in both the U.S. Constitution (Article VIII) and the United Nations Charter of 1948.

Water torture. Posted on March 23, 2005 March 23, 2005 by Jonathan Barnard. Mere months before the many-headed Hydra that is the Regional Water Agreement is scheduled to expire, ...