Jose Rodriguez

Our waterboarding program is based on the U.S. military training program... tens of thousands of U.S. servicemen were waterboarded pursuant to this program to prepare them for the possibility of being captured someday so that they would know what it felt like.

American Public Servant

Rob McElhenney

It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboarding. And that to me doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't aspects of those subjects that are funny, it just means that people are too uptight.

American Actor

Matt Apuzzo

We're a country that allowed waterboarding and indefinite detention, and we're a country where the NYPD Intelligence Division has police files on what Muslims think of the State of the Union address.

American Journalist

Jeff Sessions

Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding... or any other form of torture by our military and by our other departments and agencies.

American Politician

Mike Gallagher

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

American Critic

Andrew Breitbart

The real hate crime these days is the Orwellian intimidation wielded by the Left against those that don't think the way they do. It's worse than waterboarding.

American Businessman

Aaron Schock

I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

Jerrold Nadler

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Malcolm Nance

I have personally led, witnessed, and supervised waterboarding of hundreds of people.

American Author

Tom Cotton

Waterboarding isn't torture. We do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military.

Waterboarding is perceived negatively, as it's a form of torture.

Negative Connotation

Using waterboarding is illegal and considered a war crime in international law.

Legal Implications

References to waterboarding may be related to historical events or war times.

Historical Usage

 people's awareness to a geography that existed within the landscape raising that awareness through that particular gorilla intervention in this case you might recognize the building in the background it was blown up in the recent Bond movie we were drawing awareness to extraordinary rendition and waterboarding by holding in international water boarding

Daniel Raven-Ellison:...

 which meant the end of ghost prisons worldwide, the end of waterboarding worldwide and an end to those Guantanamo military tribunals. By methodically building the case, and getting into the justices' heads, we were able to quite literally change the world.