AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SAYS ONLY CERTIFIED DIVERS SHOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR WATER TORTURE

Amnesty International is insisting that the U.S. start a Detainees In Training (DIT) program that would provide mandatory diving certification for terrorist suspects in order to be eligible for waterboarding torture—a procedure that simulates the feeling of drowning as the detainee is dunked in water. While Vice President Dick Cheney wholeheartedly condones this interrogation method, he rejects the DIT program, saying, “Next thing you know, Amnesty International will be telling us to give these thugs La-Z-Boys and slippers.”