We Tortured More Than Previously Admitted

Posted by | October 16, 2015 16:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics

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The CIA used a waterboarding-like technique called “water dousing” which has the same effect as waterboarding. And the agency was not truthful about how many detainees it subjected to what is regarded internationally as torture.

At least a dozen more people were subjected to waterboard-like tactics in CIA custody than the agency has admitted, according to a fresh accounting of the US government’s most discredited form of torture.

The CIA maintains it only subjected three detainees to waterboarding. But agency interrogators subjected at least 12 others to a similar technique, known as “water dousing”, that also created a drowning sensation or chilled a person’s body temperature – sometimes through “immersion” in water, and often without use of a board.

New lawsuits, recently released documents and the Senate’s landmark torture report indicate that at least 13 men in total experienced “water dousing”. Those familiar with their cases and an interrogator cited in the Senate report consider water dousing’s departure from waterboarding to be “a distinction without a difference”.

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16 responses to We Tortured More Than Previously Admitted

  1. Suzanne McFly October 16th, 2015 at 16:27

    So we are now playing with semantics in the wording of the torture? That means or government does not have a legitimate defense and we need to start charging people for war crimes.

    • rg9rts October 17th, 2015 at 05:29

      Like arguing with your computer…you won’t get the answer you are looking for till you ask the proper question

  2. anothertoothpick October 16th, 2015 at 17:18

    Amurikans get to do things like this. Why? Cuz we’re exceptional. That’s why dumbass.

  3. Gina Bousquet October 16th, 2015 at 17:52

    What about the other torture techniques we saw in Abu Ghraib pictures? I never forgot a photo I saw of a Guantanamo prisoner coming out of interrogation: unconscious, his face ashen, on a stretcher.

  4. Roctuna October 16th, 2015 at 18:27

    ““water dousing”, that also created a drowning sensation or chilled a person’s body temperature – sometimes through “immersion” in water, and often without use of a board.” In other words, hold them under in ice water until they near-drown, suffer from hypothermia, or both. Sounds like torture to me.

  5. Anomaly 100 October 16th, 2015 at 19:52

    Wait, are you telling me the CIA….LIED? That can’t be. I was told by Conservatives that they’re patriots.

    • rg9rts October 17th, 2015 at 05:27

      Those are the cheaters in New England

  6. StoneyCurtisll October 16th, 2015 at 19:56

    Well Dick Cheney said only three people were water boarded…
    Are you calling him a liar?…:)

  7. StoneyCurtisll October 16th, 2015 at 19:59

    New lawsuits, recently released documents and the Senate’s landmark torture report indicate that at least 13 men in total experienced “water dousing”. Those
    familiar with their cases and an interrogator cited in the Senate
    report consider water dousing’s departure from waterboarding to be “a
    distinction without a difference”.

    Water dousing, however, added an element of hypothermia. Some
    detainees reported their CIA captors dousing them with “cold or
    refrigerated” water, then wrapping them in similarly frigid sheets of
    plastic, keeping their temperatures low.

    “CIA cable records often describe the detainees as naked after the
    water dousing, while other records omit such detail,” the Senatereport
    states.

    • whatthe46 October 16th, 2015 at 20:21

      barbaric and disgusting.

    • fahvel October 17th, 2015 at 03:38

      and if 12 or 13 is the admitted number, what is the real number?

  8. fahvel October 17th, 2015 at 03:37

    the question is, when are the evil war crimes, crimes against humanity people going to be prosecuted, from l’il bush all the way down to some corporal in cuba???

    • Bunya October 18th, 2015 at 19:39

      We don’t prosecute the republicans for something as minor as war crimes and crimes against humanity. We give them a platform on Fox “News”. We only prosecute democrats for lying about BJ’s.

  9. rg9rts October 17th, 2015 at 05:25

    See …they didn’t lie….you just asked the wrong question…you asked about waterboarding …you got the waterboarding answer…Next time ask about all water tortures.

  10. maggie October 18th, 2015 at 00:36

    and condoned by the american psychiatric ass…..it was wrong and Obama should have stopped it sooner…I am guessing he didn’t know the full extent right away…however when he did know he should have pressured the military sooner….

  11. F_cons October 18th, 2015 at 10:15

    And we continue to torture in this country http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/10/17/3713476/savannah-georgia-cops-matthew-ajibade/

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