A common one is known as waterboarding. Waterboarding is a method of water torture where water is poured over a cloth that is covering the entire face along with breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning. The waterboarding technique can be dated back to the 1500s during the Italian Inquisition. While waterboarding is being performed on a prisoner, not only do they think they are about to drown, but they are both mentally and physically being tortured simultaneously. In Vietnam forty years ago, waterboarding was first designated as illegal by U.S. generals. A photograph that appeared in The Washington Post of a U.S. soldier involved in water boarding a North Vietnamese prisoner in 1968 led to that soldier's severe punishment. The CIA maintains its interrogation techniques and make sure they are in legal guidance with the Justice Department. Made official in 2002, President Bush, Condoleezza Rice and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft approved the techniques, including waterboarding