alt Hacker NewsFun fact, when US prisoner of wars were water boarded by the Japanese, these got death sentences.
When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison.
Then came 2002 and rule of law stopped applying.
> When a US soldier was photographed in Vietnam waterboarding a vietnamese PoW he got 22 years of prison.
Really? Did he serve more than a month? Because if the people who committed My Lai for off with slaps on the wrist, I can't imagine something as trivial as waterboarding would get any serious consequences.