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Waterboarding or controlled drowning is a form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning. In the most common method of waterboarding, the captive's face is covered with cloth or some other thin material and immobilized on…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Waterboarding | causes | severe physical and/or mental suffering | 0.90 | text |
| Waterboarding | is a | painting by Vann Nath | 0.90 | text |
| Wilson R | instance of | and I oppose them.Professors | 0.80 | text |
| prolonged confinement to extreme violence | instance of | psychological duress | 0.80 | text |
| torture | instance of | psychological duress | 0.80 | text |
| waterboarding disrupted one attack.In an interview in January 2009 | instance of | he does not believe that evidence obtained by the U.S. government through enhanced interrogation techniques | 0.80 | text |
| Dick Cheney acknowledged the use of waterboarding to interrogate suspects | instance of | he does not believe that evidence obtained by the U.S. government through enhanced interrogation techniques | 0.80 | text |
| said that waterboarding had been | instance of | he does not believe that evidence obtained by the U.S. government through enhanced interrogation techniques | 0.80 | text |
| Waterboarding | has effect | Allen Keller | 0.60 | section |
| Waterboarding | has effect | Bellevue Hospital/New York University | 0.60 | section |
| Waterboarding | has effect | Program | 0.60 | section |
| Waterboarding | has effect | Survivors | 0.60 | section |
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