by
Fred Branfman, Published on Friday, March 3, 2006 by Tikkun
“Gestapo interrogation methods included: repeated near drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub.”
– The History Place
“The
CIA officers say 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted the
longest under waterboarding, two and a half minutes, before beginning
to talk, with debatable results.”
(Brian Ross, ABC World News Tonight, November 18, 2005
“When
President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of
detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his
powers as commander in chief) Bush believes he can waive the
restrictions, the White House and legal specialists said.”
(“Bush Could Bypass Torture Ban,” Boston Globe