Waterboarding

thumb|Two United States soldiers and one South Vietnamese soldier waterboard a captured North Vietnamese prisoner of war near [[Da Nang. Published on the front cover of The Washington Post on 21 January 1968.]] Waterboarding or controlled drowning is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning. In the most common method of waterboarding, the captive's face is covered with cloth or some other thin material and immobilized on their back at an incline of 10 to