I agree with balzar. Levin believes he was tortured by American interrogators doing a routine, good old fashioned post 9-11 waterboarding, the way they were taught and the way it is now practiced by our country. I don't care if he said "waterboarding isn't torture as long as you're doing it right, but they didn't get it right with me" or something to that affect. In order for us to even begin to consider ourselves a civilized nation, we must have a clear line establishing what is and what isn't torture and for anyone with a brain and a conscience, waterboarding clearly is torture. Worse things have happened to our nation than 9-11 without our leaders considering stooping to the levels of Pol Pot and Josef Stalin. Thank God for men like Daniel Levin who have to the courage to put their selves on the line to investigate the practices that Bush and Co. say is acceptable and for men like Keith Olberman who are rightly pissed off and not afraid to tell it like it is.

And how is he different from Dick Cheney? By undergoing the waterboarding treatment Daniel Levin has proven himself to be a man of character and to have a real pair of balls. Five Deferment Dick Cheney would never subject himself to such treatment. He's a plus-size pantywaist.