Posted on May 4, 2022
CIA psychologist testifies about waterboarding of terror suspect at black ops site
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A CIA psychologist who waterboarded a Saudi man suspected of being the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing has given chilling testimony about how the prisoner was quickly “broken” by the torture technique.
James E Mitchell was giving evidence before a military court in Guantanamo Bay hearing pre-trial arguments this week in the case of al-Qaeda suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, The New York Times reported.
Dr Mitchell, a contractor with the CIA, subjected Mr Nashiri to several waterboarding sessions at a CIA black ops site in Thailand in 2002.
James E Mitchell was giving evidence before a military court in Guantanamo Bay hearing pre-trial arguments this week in the case of al-Qaeda suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, The New York Times reported.
Dr Mitchell, a contractor with the CIA, subjected Mr Nashiri to several waterboarding sessions at a CIA black ops site in Thailand in 2002.
CIA psychologist testifies about waterboarding of terror suspect at black ops site
Posted from independent.co.uk
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."“Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique, and ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique,” reads one document, released in 2018.
Waterboarding, as practised by the CIA, involves strapping down a detainee, covering their face with a cloth and then pouring water over the nose and mouth to create a terrifying sensation of drowning. It is widely considered to be a form of torture.
The technique dates back hundreds of years but it came to earn notoriety in the years after the 9/11 attack when the CIA employed it against suspects detained as part of the so-called war on terror.
President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in interrogations of detainees in 2009."
..."“Interrogation escalated rapidly from subject being aggressively debriefed by interrogators while standing at the walling wall, to multiple applications of the walling technique, and ultimately, multiple applications of the watering technique,” reads one document, released in 2018.
Waterboarding, as practised by the CIA, involves strapping down a detainee, covering their face with a cloth and then pouring water over the nose and mouth to create a terrifying sensation of drowning. It is widely considered to be a form of torture.
The technique dates back hundreds of years but it came to earn notoriety in the years after the 9/11 attack when the CIA employed it against suspects detained as part of the so-called war on terror.
President Barack Obama signed an executive order banning the use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in interrogations of detainees in 2009."
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