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Each trainee was interrogated to some extent, all experienced some physical interrogation such as pushing, shoving, getting slammed against a wall (usually a large metal sheet set up so that it would not seriously injure trainees), with some actually water-boarded (not me).

In a subsequent interview with the Observer he spoke of being beaten and humiliated in US custody and retracted statements made under interrogation, such as having listened to Osama bin Laden making a speech.

At the time the department's Office of Legal Counsel OLCC) was revisiting laws to support new "enhanced" methods of interrogation, such as waterboarding, which induces a sensation of drowning.

Philip Zelikow, who was the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's most senior official, told the Guardian that he now regards what officials euphemistically called "enhanced interrogation", such as sleep deprivation and waterboarding, as torture – although he did not use that word at the time and is reluctant to use it now.

"There have been reports of psychological manipulation and physical torture during [shuanggui] detention and interrogation, such as sleep deprivation, simulated drowning, burning the detainee's skin with cigarettes, and beating," said a report in the Hong-Kong-based Dui Hua Human Rights Journal.

Each revelation of U.S.-sponsored torture or enhanced interrogation, such as the secret and often illegal CIA interrogation sites and procedures exposed by Wikileaks, gravely harms our country's international standing and reduces our legitimacy and influence in the world.

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Mr. Trump's order says no detainee should be tortured or otherwise subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment "as prescribed by U.S. law," but it makes no mention of international law commitments binding the United States to adhere to humane standards even if Congress were to relax domestic legal limits on interrogations, such as the Convention Against Torture or the Geneva Conventions.

The interrogations included the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques," such as waterboarding, which constituted torture in the judgment of the Red Cross and many other authorities.

Former CIA lawyer John Rizzo has defended "enhanced interrogation techniques", such as water boarding, and said the US interrogation programme did not constitute torture.

We have known the 'enhanced interrogation techniques' such as waterboarding constituted torture.

And she weighed in decisively on "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding.

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