Soon to be released, a declassified 2004 memo that indicates "the techniques used to interrogate terrorist suspects 'appeared to violate the U.N. Convention Against Torture' and did not produce desired results."
OMG! We SO didn't know!
However, previously known and reported:
" '…in the DoJ opinion, the subject's airflow is disrupted by the firm application of a damp cloth over the air passages; the interrogator applies a small amount of water to the cloth in a controlled manner. By contrast, the Agency interrogator... applied large volumes of water to a cloth that covered the detainee's mouth and nose."All the above quotes gleaned from the Huffington Post. Please read more at:"Medical personnel at the detention facility protested the use of the waterboard in that form, stressing that "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.' "
IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe"
Americans, I ask you, are you going to snooze your way through this scandal?