But I couldn't hold on for more than a few moments.
The CIA allegedly destroyed all videos it made of the procedure. In fact, the use of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' on Khalid Sheik Mohammed produced false and misleading information. The first mention of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti — the nickname of the al-Qaeda courier who ultimately led us to bin Laden — as well as a description of him as an important member of al-Qaeda, came from a detainee held in another country, who we believe was not tortured. In het 500 pagina's dikke rapport wordt noodzaak van waterboarding en andere scherpe verhoortechnieken voor de veiligheid van de VS afgewezen omdat volgens de opstellers nergens is gebleken, dat de technieken essentiële levensreddende informatie hadden opgeleverd. In other words there is no doubt that waterboarding causes severe physical and/or mental suffering– one central element in the UNCAT's definition of torture. The torture report contains new information on the CIA’s use of rectal feeding and rehydration.
By this point, any information Mohammed had would have been years out of date.After being subjected to repeated waterboarding, Mohammed claimed participation in thirty-one terrorist plots.During a radio interview on 24 October 2006, with Scott Hennen of radio station On 13 September 2007, ABC News reported that a former intelligence officer stated that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded in the presence of a female CIA supervisor.On 2 June 2010, while speaking to the Economic Club of Obama opposed prosecuting CIA personnel who committed waterboarding while relying on legal advice provided by their superiors. Waterboarding, method of torture in which water is poured into the nose and mouth of a victim who lies on his back on an inclined platform, with his feet above his head. The CIA report reportedly cast doubt on the effectiveness of the torture used by CIA interrogators during the Bush administration. One of the psychiatrist / interrogators acknowledged that the Agency's use of the technique is different from that used in SERE training because it is 'for real' and is more poignant and convincing.According to the DOJ memo, the IG Report observed that the CIA's Office of Medical Services (OMS) stated that "the experience of the SERE psychologist / interrogators on the waterboard was probably misrepresented at the time, as the SERE waterboard experience is so different from the subsequent Agency usage as to make it almost irrelevant" and that "[c]onsequently, according to OMS, there was no a priori reason to believe that applying the waterboard with the frequency and intensity with which it was used by the psychologist/interrogators was either efficacious or medically safe." 1. By contrast, the Agency interrogator ... applied large volumes of water to a cloth that covered the detainee's mouth and nose.
According to the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, the best intelligence gained from a CIA detainee — information describing Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti's real role in al-Qaeda and his true relationship to bin Laden — was obtained through standard, noncoercive means.In December 2014, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence issued a declassified 500 page summary of its still-classified In June 2015, in response to a critical assessment of China in the Waterboarding and other forms of water torture have historically been used for 1) punishing, 2) forcing confessions for use in trials 3) eliciting false confessions for political purposes, and 4) obtaining factual intelligence for military purposes.
Another detainee, Majid Khan, a legal resident of the United States and ac…