Editing Waterboarding (section)

==Origin of the term==
While the technique has been used in various forms for centuries,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2007/11/03/15886834/waterboarding-a-tortured-history|title=Waterboarding: A Tortured History|website=[[NPR]] |date=3 November 2007|access-date=3 November 2016|last1=Weiner|first1=Eric}}</ref> the term ''water board'' was recorded first in a 1976 [[UPI]] report: "A Navy spokesman admitted use of the 'water board' torture ... to 'convince each trainee that he won't be able to physically resist what an enemy would do to him.'" The verb-noun ''waterboarding'' dates from 2004.<ref name=Safire/> Techniques using forcible drowning to extract information had hitherto been referred to as "[[water torture]]", "water treatment", "[[Water cure (torture)|water cure]]" or simply "torture".<ref name=Safire/><ref name=macdonald20080513>{{cite web|first=Isabel|last=MacDonald|url=http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/14/9615/|title=From Water Torture to 'Waterboarding'|date=13 May 2008|access-date=17 April 2009|work=[[Extra!]]}}</ref> Professor [[Darius Rejali]] of [[Reed College]], author of ''[[Torture and Democracy]]'' (2007), speculates that the term waterboarding probably has its origin in the need for a [[euphemism]].<ref name=Safire/>