This is a waterboard. When the Congress passes the Military Commissions Act it will become legal for American interrogators to strap terrorism suspects to such a device, whether they be foreigners or American citizens. Now you may be thinking that young women in bikinis eat meal worms while tied to these things every week on network television. You might even add in a “harrumph” for emphasis, but check out where this picture is from:

Via Sully*, David Corn writes:

Below are photographs taken by Jonah Blank last month at Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The prison is now a museum that documents Khymer Rouge atrocities.

Yes, that Khmer Rouge. And before you ask, from Jonah Blank, the source of the photos:

Incidentally, the waterboard in these photo wasn’t merely one among many torture devices highlighted at the prison museum. It was one of only two devices singled out for highlighting (the other was another form of water-torture–a tank that could be filled with water or other liquids

Something tells me that on this version of Fear Factor the consolation prize leaves something to be desired.

_{* I know I said I would stop reading Sullivan, but I can’t help it. I hope my three readers(woot!) won’t hold it against me.}

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