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GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — A Saudi defendant in the destroyer Cole bombing case who was subjected to waterboarding and a mock execution by the C.I.A. in 2002 still has nightmares of drowning ...
That sounds like it could be an awful lot like waterboarding. Now, the feeding itself: Medical equations in the newly released protocols call for 2,300 ml of liquid (a liquid meal replacement such as ...
The officials refused to say whether waterboarding violates the Geneva Conventions, and they refused to call it torture. ... and about what goes on at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
A senior CIA lawyer advised Pentagon officials about the use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Guantanamo Bay in a meeting in late 2002, defending waterboarding and other methods ...
“When I first learned about waterboarding, when I became deputy attorney general, my reaction as a citizen and a leader was: This is torture. It’s still what I think,” said Comey.
Waterboarding is so suburban these days. Remember torture? It used to be quite the scandal here in the United States, when officials at places like Guantanamo Bay would waterboard prisoners, but ...
Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on January 11, 2002. [Photo: DoD photo by Petty Officer 1st class Shane T. McCoy, U.S. Navy] In a pretrial hearing of five men facing the death ...
Testimony at Guantánamo Bay shows that C.I.A. black sites, where some detainees were tortured, amounted to test labs for unproven techniques, with shifting rules shaping operations.
Steve King was the first member of Congress to float the inevitable question. "Wonder what President Obama thinks of waterboarding now?" the Iowa Republican tweeted ...
A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence ...