The Navy SEALs once used the technique in their counter-interrogation training, but they stopped because the trainees could not survive it without breaking, which was bad for morale. Anonymous CIA sources report that Mohammed's interrogators were impressed. Many CIA officials see water boarding as a poor interrogation method because it scares the prisoner so much you can't trust anything he tells you. Human rights groups agree unanimously that "simulated drowning," causing the prisoner to believe he is about to die, is undoubtedly a form of psychological torture.
The international community recognizes "mock executions" as a form of torture, and many place water boarding in that category. In , a Japanese soldier who used water boarding against a U. In September , the Bush administration faced widespread criticism regarding its refusal to sign a congressional bill outlawing the use of torture techniques against all U. That same month, the U.
Department of Defense made it illegal for any member of the U. However, in , President Barack Obama signed an executive order that banned all government employees, including CIA agents, from using torture and restricted them to noncoercive interrogation techniques. Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots.
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Likewise for Gina Haspel. I was on edge. It was to give you a feeling and understanding to know what it was like, what you might be able to expect if you were to be captured. They would ask questions … you were to try to not answer them if you felt you could. I got to the point where I was just throwing people off of me and I ran out of the tent at the time.
So I was finally subdued and put in a hot box. I would say military people need to have some types of experience to understand what could come. An outspoken critic of the use of torture, Nance testified in about the experience of being waterboarded before a congressional panel and the U. Helsinki Commission. Here are excerpts from his testimonies:. Waterboarding is not a simulation. Unless you have been strapped down to the board, have endured the agonizing feeling of the water overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel your throat open and allow pint after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs, you will not know the meaning of the word.
For the uninitiated, it is horrifying to watch and if it goes wrong, it can lead straight to terminal hypoxia. When done right it is controlled death. Its lack of physical scarring allows the victim to recover and be threaten[ed] with its use again and again. It then pushes down into the trachea and starts to process a respiratory degradation.
It is an overwhelming experience that induces horror, triggers a frantic survival instinct. As the event unfolded, I was fully conscious of what was happening: I was being tortured. Sampson volunteered to be waterboarded in as part of a BBC documentary. Sampson said yes. He was waterboarded for 18 seconds. The water starts filling up my nasal cavity, turning me into an inverted water vessel.
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