Is waterboarding still effective after 183 times?

by: Justin Lynch

We talked in class Friday about the massive amounts of time that KSM and Abu Zubaydah were waterboarded (183 for KSM, a mere 83 for AZ.) The issue of whether terrorists are trained to withstand torture was brought up, but the question needs to be asked: is waterboarding someone that many times (in one month no less) still effective? Brian Palmer from Slate looked it up and the answer is apparently yes, even experienced "torture-takers" still experience pain from these techniques.