Definition of waterboarding
: an interrogation technique in which water is forced into a detainee's mouth and nose so as to induce the sensation of drowning
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ProPublica was recently forced to issue a correction on a report accusing Haspel of overseeing the waterboarding and abuse of a detainee being held a CIA black site, Abu Zubaydah.
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Still, Haspel, 61, who’s currently Deputy Director of the CIA, will need to acknowledge that waterboarding is no longer allowed by federal law, Graham said.
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Haspel was also charged with responsibility for a second interrogation that involved much less serious waterboarding, and then for either recommending or actually carrying out the destruction of tapes of both interrogations.
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Haspel was in charge of one of the CIA’s ‘‘black site’’ prisons where detainees were subjected to waterboarding and other harrowing interrogation measures widely condemned as torture.
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Her actions in that instance, and in the waterboarding of al-Nashiri, are likely to be the focus of questions at her confirmation hearings.
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Haspel was the chief of the Cat's Eye base in Thailand, but was appointed and arrived after that prisoner was subjected to any waterboarding, according to Probpublica's retraction.
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Brennan withdrew his name at that time due to allegations of his connections to using enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, during the George W. Bush administration.
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President Donald Trump’s campaign included promises to reinstate waterboarding and allow other extreme forms of torture.
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First Known Use of waterboarding
2004
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