Comments on: Waterboarding: two questions for Michael Hayden about three “high-value” detainees now in Guantánamo

By: The Faisalabad 16 | Lew Rockwell

The Faisalabad 16 | Lew Rockwell — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:59:38 +0000

[...] acknowledged in February this year, he was subjected to the ancient torture technique known as waterboarding, a form of controlled drowning. He was later transferred to other secret prisons – in Poland, [...]

By: Michael Hayden: Torture’s PR Man « Antiwar.com Blog

Michael Hayden: Torture’s PR Man « Antiwar.com Blog — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:34:39 +0000

[...] spying at his point that the likes of Dianne Feinstein opposed him — he loved him some controlled near-drowning of alleged [...]

By: When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:39:27 +0000

[...] is that “torture” is something that was confined to a single tactic (waterboarding) and used only on three “high-value” detainees accused of being high-level al-Qaeda operatives. The reality is completely [...]

By: ‘Dead or alive’ The sorry history of George W. Bush and the hunt for Osama bin Laden : The Reid Report

Tue, 03 May 2011 17:42:19 +0000

[...] is later learned that Abu Zubaydah, along with a second tortured detainee, Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, are questioned about possible links (which did not exist) between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Al Libi reportedly gives [...]

By: On Bush’s Waterboarding Claims, UK Media Loses Its Moral Compass « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:19:32 +0000

[...] Senate Armed Services Committee in February 2008 (PDF, p. 31), after CIA director Gen. Mike Hayden first admitted that three prisoners had been waterboarded, that he believes waterboarding violates Common Article [...]

By: Arrogance And Torture: A History of Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:58:42 +0000

[...] but it was also revised so that the use of techniques previously regarded as torture, such as waterboarding (an ancient torture technique that involves controlled drowning), could be used on an a number of [...]

By: Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:31:18 +0000

[...] this. Certainly, there is a problem with the case against al-Nashiri — one of three prisoners subjected to waterboarding, according to Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA — although the problem is less [...]

By: Mark Christian

Mark Christian — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:30:08 +0000

I LOVE WATERBOARDING!. Ask Nick Berg, Paul Johnston, Daniel Pearl, and PFC Lowell Tucker III , what they think of waterboarding? Oops.. you can’t.
All were brutally beheaded by our racist, hateful, demonic enemies. Get a law degree and go after those guys.

By: My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No “Preventive Detention” by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 22 May 2009 04:21:00 +0000

[...] about loopholes in this policy that I explored here — and unreservedly refuted claims that waterboarding was either necessary or useful (a familiar refrain, but one particularly focused just now on Dick [...]

By: Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 21 May 2009 22:39:28 +0000

[...] tortured (unlike Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri, whose torture by waterboarding was admitted by CIA director Michael Hayden), but during my research for my book The Guantánamo [...]