Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
JFYI:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ess-memos.html
An interesting snippet, for me at least:
One memo said waterboarding had been used a total of 266 times on two of the three al Qaeda suspects.
So the total number of suspects waterboarded is still 3?
Apparently so, unless Hayden lied before the senate. Considering that he wasn't in charge of the CIA until after waterboarding had stopped, I don't know why he'd perjure himself over it.

Here's an article from Time, that I also thought was interesting: How Waterboarding Got Out of Control

I'm still confused by the frequency that's been reported- in KSM's case, 183 times in one month? That would work out to six sessions a day. First of all, it flies in the face of earlier reports....
Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 
"KSM lasted the longest under waterboarding, about a minute and a half, but once he broke, it never had to be used again," said a former CIA official familiar with KSM's case.
But those were anonymous sources, so we can set them aside for now. Even still 183 sessions in one month would mean that he averaged 6 sessions a day, every day of the month. That doesn't even sound possible. Maybe we'll get more clarification on those numbers later, since they're already out in the public. Perhaps it was 183 applications of water? That would make more sense considering multiple applications would occur per session- but it's still far more usage than was outlined in the guildelines from the OLC.