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Navy vet says waterboarding scarred him for life

Navy vet says waterboarding scarred him for life: "Arthur McCants has drowned many times in his dreams, by his account. The lanky 60-year-old said he is haunted by 'waterboarding' -- an experience some decry as torture -- that he endured in Navy survival training more than 30 years ago. Now, he and his sister accuse the Veterans Administration of ducking its obligation to provide him with disability help. The VA has reported that it can find no proof that waterboarding occurred during such Navy training, although a former survival instructor said this year in congressional testimony that it did."

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