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TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Senator John McCain] Is it still permissible to use a wet towel and dripping water to induce the misperception of suffocation?
[Lt. General Randall M. Schmidt, Author of "Schmidt Report"] The use of the wet towel, dripping water to induce the misperception of suffocation was one of the techniques requested by the JTF in their laundry list given up. It was never approved. It has never been a technique approved.
[Professor Alfred McCoy, author A Question of Torture] One of the techniques that made the transition from the regime of the physical to the psychological -- in fact the only one -- was waterboarding. Because in the medieval era, under the Inquisition, it was done because of its horrible, physical aspects. It was done to purge and punish the heretic.
You force water down the throat of the victim.
The victim thinks that he's drowning. It's horrible. Your body tells you that you're dying.
CIA AGENTS ARRIVE AT BAGRAM
Right after 9/11, the CIA got approval from the White House for waterboarding.
[Narrator] An early test case involved the interrogation of Ibn Sheikh al Libi, a man suspected of being the Emir of an al Qaeda training camp.
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