Thus he was waterboarded an average of six times a day for a month. The frequency of the waterboarding and the methods used were in violation of the CIA’s own directives.
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This would seem to destroy the neocon argument that torture was only used to get information. Saw an article recently where a journalist asked a member of a drug cartel why they tortured. He said it wasn’t really to get information or for punishment, it was because the torturers enjoyed doing it. That’s probably what we’re dealing with here too.