Forms of waterboarding have been around since the fifteen hundreds. The styles have varied but the overall objective has stayed consistent. Waterboarding is a form of torture where the subject being tortured is made to feel as if they were drowning. Waterboarding has been found to be an excessive and brutal form of torture and therefore was outlawed in the United States during the Vietnam War. This essay discusses the similarities and differences between three different news outlets that reported on waterboarding. The first report discussed comes from a news outlet known as Democracy Now. Amy Goodman conducts an interview with Senator Patrick Leahy, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, and Senator Edward Kennedy. The second news outlet examined is an article by Deroy Murdock, an American conservative columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and a contributing editor with National Review Online. The third news outlet examined is an article taken from the CNN website.......
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