Another detainee subjected to the procedure, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, experienced chronic hemmorhoids, an anal fissure and a "symptomatic rectal prolapse".
That logic may explain why no "high value detainee" subjected to the most extreme tactics and still in U.S. custody in Guantánamo has yet been given an open trial.
In 2015, a lawyer for a detainee subjected to water dousing told the Guardian: "You would laugh the next time you heard the government try to minimize its wrongdoing by drawing a distinction between waterboarding and other forms of water torture".
A spokesman said, "The representations as to the value of the information derived from detainees subject to E.I.T.s" — enhanced interrogation techniques — "were representations made by the agency, not one individual.
A spokesman said, "The representations as to the value of the information derived from detainees subject to E.I.T.s"—enhanced interrogation techniques—"were representations made by the agency, not one individual.
The photographic images from the Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq were disturbing in part because we were witnessing soldiers proudly posing and smiling for a camera that documented their outrageous assaults on human dignity and the dehumanizing rituals to which they subjected the detainees subject to their authority.
Holder should have come out months ago and said as forcefully as possible, "The lawyers who donated their time and talents to ensuring that even the most despised detainees subject to American law have the legal rights that they are entitled to are heroes who fully understand the moral, philosophical, and legal underpinnings of American freedoms.
On Friday, March 22 , 2013 the Honorable Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California will hear an oral argument on an important motion filed by the ACLU to protect the rights of detainees subject to prolonged detention who are not competent to represent themselves.
He was one of three detainees subjected by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators to the drowning technique called waterboarding.
Some came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques, but there were many other sources as well.
