Waterboarding sessions brought detainees ‘close to death’: report
The waterboarding sessions that terrorist suspects were subjected to during the Bush administration were "administered with meticulous cruelty" and were in part designed so that detainees acted as "guinea pigs" for future interrogation sessions, says an exhaustive new report. The report also shows that the interrogation methods were so harsh that some detainees "simply gave up and tried to let themselves drown." AWIP: Stomach-churning details of CIA waterboarding crimes - Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney's "dunk in the water".





