an understated englishman

Christopher Hitchens does some field investigation for Vanity Fair, and experiences waterboarding for himself

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it is not very dramatic, which is probably the most interesting thing about it, all over very quickly

h/t Ackerman on Firedoglake

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He could have made a small fortune auctioning off the chance to waterboard him. I suspect there would have been a lot of takers!