TIMES ONLINE– CIA interrogators used the controverisal waterboarding technique 183 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, attacks and 83 times on another al-Qaeda suspect, according to The New York Times.
A 2005 Justice Department memorandum revealed that the simulated drowning technique was used on Mohammed 183 times in March 2003.
Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner questioned in the CIA’s overseas detention programme in August 2002, was waterboarded 83 times, although a former CIA officer had told news organisations that he had been subjected to only 35 seconds under water before agreeing to tell everything he knew.
President Barack Obama has banned the use of waterboarding, overturning a Bush Administration policy that it did not constitute torture.
The memo is one of four authorising “harsh interrogation” that were declassified by the Obama Administration last week. They show that the CIA based more than 3,000 intelligence reports on the questioning of “high-value” terror suspects from September 11, 2001, to April 2003.
According to The New York Times, some copies of the memo on Mohammed appeared to have the number of waterboardings used on him redacted while others did not.
A footnote to another 2005 Justice Department memo said that waterboarding was used both more frequently and with a greater volume of water than the CIA rules permitted, the newspaper claimed, while a separate footnote said that the use of the harshest techniques appeared to have been “unnecessary” in Abu Zubaydah’s case.
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Are we clear on that? Waterboarding is a method of trturoe, and this has always been our position and the longstanding opinion of America and the world. No, only you’re clear on that The description of trturoe has always been a vague one left to the intepretations of the individual. And it has not always been our position. Otherwise why would that position of been subjected to a reversal ?One mans trturoe is another mans pleasure. That will always be the fact that gives this subject the ability to always sustain debate and not be so arrogantly and ignorantly dictated to us in the autocratic fashion you spew Since it’s outrage you obviously wanted, I’m sure I didn’t disappoint. Except- oh wait, you wanted “fake” outrage. Sorry then, you’ll have to keep waiting. If I took you seriously it would be real.Be really nice just once if we saw real outrage from you guys when thousands of Americans die at the hands of these guys who would never dream of affording the same rights to them during incarceration that we do to them.These are not uniformed soldiers with an alliance or allegiance to any country or ideology except their own which is basically to make up the rules as they go along so why should they be afforded what they dont acknowledge ?.We saw how this menatllity under Carter and Clinton worked which is what you should be outraged about because that my friend is what gave us the Cole, the first trade tower bombing, numerous attacks on embassies and barracks and 911.Maybe you’ll be truly outraged when thousnds more die as we still procure our vanity to look good.I know, when that happens you’ll just place your outrage at conservatives because its us who made these monsters the way they are, right ?And spare me the feigned patriotism of those who prefer waterboarding by calling us traitors.I think Clinton was incredibly derelict in his duties and responsible in good part for 911 happening but the man I believe sincerly thought he was doing what was best at the time. A huge screw up ? YEA !But not a traitor !