CIA: Waterboarding Used On Only 3 Detainees

The CIA on three occasions shortly after the September 11 attacks used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding, CIA Director Michael Hayden told Congress on Tuesday.

"Waterboarding has been used on only three detainees," Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee, publicly specifying the number of subjects and naming them for the first time, as Congress considers banning the technique.

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Comments

[SaintN]

10:04 PM on 02/06/2008

MICHAEL HAYDEN along with being a CIA_Whore you're alsos a LYING,SLEAZY-SLIMY BASTARD exactly like anyone else who works for the CIA!!! May you and your family Burn in Hell!!!

[Macready]

12:18 PM on 02/06/2008

even one prisoner is one prisoner too many for this torture . . . it should never have happened . . . it is against the Geneva Convention .. .

[mrdontplay]

10:18 AM on 02/06/2008

waterboarding smorderboarding
-FOXNEWS

[realitytrumpsbull]

12:24 AM on 02/06/2008

Well, I guess when they all get fired, they can go get phat jobs working for some outfit selling 'business intelligence' or something...
privatization is underway...join or die...

[ultomatt]

12:03 AM on 02/06/2008

The CIA admits to torturing three people. Of course it's a lie, but they admit to three. Ok, that's three crimes against humanity, with who knows how many others to be revealed at a later date. It's gonna happen. Just like in Falluja (aka the neo-Guernica) when the US military swore on fifty stacks of Bibles that they didn't use white phosphorous, until there was evidence produced to prove they were liars...then they admitted it...only after evidence was produced that made it so they could no longer lie. This is SOP.

The CIA are the bastard stepchildren of the Third Reich, so big surprise that they use "enhanced interrogation" methods, just like, and in exactly the same words as, they're godfathers in the Third Reich. Same phrase. Torture as "enhanced interrogation" in the Fatherland, and now in the Homeland. There is a clear trail from Nazi "middle management" to the OSS/CIA...why do you think the CIA has broken the law for so long on FOIA requests, that legally require them to reveal their historical documents? They won't release them, because they reveal the collusion with the anti-communist Germans after WW2. They won't reveal them, because, among others, HW Bush would be revealed as the monster he is...and his father Prescott, was. The Bush family has a long history of brutality, racism and eugenics.

And Field Marshall Hayden is just one more in a long line of criminals to hold that position.

[ultomatt]

11:53 PM on 02/05/2008

One word.

LIARS

[factotem]

11:34 PM on 02/05/2008

geez, looks like they should have soap-and-waterboarded that beast.

[Ides]

11:33 PM on 02/05/2008

Three war crimes. That's not so bad, right?

[acudoctor]

09:02 PM on 02/05/2008

Twenty-one years earlier, in 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.

"Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told his colleagues last Thursday during the debate on military commissions legislation. "We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100402005.html

somebody wake up mukasey and tell him there's precedence!

[Bushgirlsgonewild]

08:42 PM on 02/05/2008

.

I think waterboarding was used on the guy in the photo because that was the only way to wake him up. He looks exactly like the dorm roommate I had in 1982 on any given Sunday.

Jerry? Is that you?

Anyway, of course there were only 3 people it was used on.

One of them was the Number 2 guy in Al Queda. Same guy, just waterboarded and killed about 70 times since 2002.

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[vipersdad]

08:31 PM on 02/05/2008

Three crimes against humanity...... One would be tragic and lessen us in the eyes of the world. Three is 300 times worse. It's sickening.

For those of you who BELEVE that number: Look at these video: (note - it's disturbing) These are Ohio Police officers and a woman who was the VICTIM of a crime.

http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=53707&bw


follow up: http://www.wkyc.com/video/player.aspx?aid=53820&sid=82519&bw=

[helonias]

07:45 PM on 02/05/2008

So when will the CIA turn the other cheek?

[helonias]

07:44 PM on 02/05/2008

And what about the folks with the hoods and electrodes and other even nastier stuff that Sy Hersh wrote about?

[Birdman]

06:46 PM on 02/05/2008

CIA: Waterboarding Used On Only 3 Detainees

And I'm the Eeaster Bunny too. Nice try, but somehow I do not believe a single word this government says anymore.

[moda31]

06:38 PM on 02/05/2008

that's 3 too many