The banality of evil

[randy_byers]

The agency recommended Ensure Plus.

Which is to say that the CIA was worried that the people they were waterboarding would choke on their own vomit, so they kept them on a liquid diet. Waterboarding for dummies.

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[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Another detail the article talks about is that they started waterboarding with saline solution because they "forced such massive quantities of water into the mouths and noses of detainees, prisoners inevitably swallowed huge amounts of liquid – enough to conceivably kill them from hyponatremia, a rare but deadly condition in which ingesting enormous quantities of water results in a dangerously low concentration of sodium in the blood."