Interrogators used a technique that elicits a drowning sensation and lowers body temperature on many more detainees than the agency admits to waterboarding At least a dozen more people were subjected to waterboard-like tactics in CIA custody than the agency has admitted,according to a fresh accounting of the US government’s most discredited form of torture.
The CIA maintains it only subjected three detainees to waterboarding. But agency interrogators subjected at least 12 others to a similar technique, known as water dousing”, and that also created a drowning sensation or chilled a person’s body temperature – sometimes through immersion” in water,and often without exercise of a board.
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Source: theguardian.com