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Psychologist Who Waterboarded C.I.A. Prisoners Defends Method’s Use in 9/11 Case [1]

['Carol Rosenberg']

Date: 2024-07-20

In the years after the C.I.A. waterboarded the man accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, the agency offered explanations of how he withstood the technique 183 times at a secret overseas prison.

The prisoner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was strapped to a gurney with his head tilted down and a cloth covering his face. Somehow, the theory went, he realized that his captors would pour water on the cloth for at most 40 seconds at a time. So he used his fingers to count until he could breathe again as he experienced the sensation of drowning.

This week, at a hearing in the case, Mr. Mohammed’s lawyer, Gary D. Sowards, offered an alternative explanation while questioning a psychologist who administered the waterboarding.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/us/politics/cia-terrorism-waterboarded-prisoners.html

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