EXCLUSIVE: Waterboarding Too Dangerous, 2007 Internal DoD Memo Reveals

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EXCLUSIVE: Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals

Thursday 04 March 2010

by: Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t | Report


In recent weeks, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign defending the efficacy of waterboarding, going so far as to say that the torture technique sanctioned by the Bush administration is not only safe, but is in line with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

On Tuesday, in an interview with "Fox News," John Yoo, the former Justice Department attorney who was the principal author of legal memoranda that cleared the way for CIA interrogators to waterboard "war on terror" detainees and subject them to other brutal torture techniques, asserted that waterboarding was harmless.

In his defense of the practice, Yoo cited the thousands of US servicemen who have undergone SERE training and said, "we don't think it amounts to torture because we would not be doing it to our own soldiers otherwise."

However, a previously unreleased internal Department of Defense (DoD) memo, summarizing a review of the Navy SERE program in late February - early March 2007, reveals that there was fierce criticism within the DoD of the Navy SERE school in North Island, San Diego, for being the only SERE facility to still use waterboarding in its training program.

The memo, obtained by Truthout, stated that the use of waterboarding left students "psychologically defeated" and impaired in the ability to develop "psychological hardiness."

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[SlingBlade]

1. 2007 Internal DoD Memo ? Yea, But it's now 2010 and we ain't

look'in backwards. Remember ?

Ahhh, I'll give it a K&R anyhow cause it did matter at one time,
I think, Maybe, Perhaps,sort of ....Didn't it ?

Don't expect it to last long though, K&Rs have a funny way of disappearing around here recently.