I was conflicted on waterboarding till I read this

[AllentownJake]

After the Spanish American War of 1898 in the Philippines, the US Army used waterboarding which was called the "water cure" at the time. Reports of "cruelties" from soldiers stationed in the Philippines led to Senate Hearings on US activity in the Philippines.

Testimony described the waterboarding of Tobeniano Ealdama "while supervised by …Captain/Major Edwin F. Glenn (Glenn Highway)."

Elihu Root, United States Secretary of War, ordered a court martial for Glenn in April 1902."<60> During the trial, Glenn "maintained that the torture of Ealdama was 'a legitimate exercise of force under the laws of war.'"<61>

Though some reports seem to confuse Ealdama with Glenn,<62> he was found guilty and "sentenced to a one-month suspension and a fifty-dollar fine," the leniency of the sentence due to the "circumstances" presented at the trial.<61>

President Theodore Roosevelt privately rationalized the instances of "mild torture, the water cure" but publicly called for efforts to "prevent the occurrence of all such acts in the future." In that effort, he ordered the court-martial of General Jacob H. Smith on the island of Samar, "where some of the worst abuses had occurred." When the court-martial found only that he had acted with excessive zeal, Roosevelt disregarded the verdict and had the General dismissed from the Army.<63>

Roosevelt soon declared victory in the Philippines, and the public lost interest in "what had, only months earlier, been alarming revelations.

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From Wikipedia...so its not the most scholarly source...however this has happened before and it will happen again.

[Jennicut]

1. Very interesting. So we did this about 100 plus years ago.

It might cycle over and over unless there are prosecutions.