John Kiriakou
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That day in the cafeteria, my colleague explained it in great detail.
And a lot of these techniques are not torture.
If I grab you by the lapels and say, dog on you and answer my questions, that's not torture.
Or the first one was called the belly slap technique.
Or the intention slap was another way they called it, where I smack you in the belly.
It makes a cracking sound.
Maybe it leaves a handprint.
It's a little bit embarrassing.
But then it graduated quickly to things like waterboarding, which everybody knows about.
But there were techniques that were, in my view, that were worse than waterboarding.
Like, for example, there was the cold cell.
They chain you to an eye bolt in the ceiling.
So you can't lay or kneel or sit or anything.
You can't get comfortable in any way.
And they chill the cell to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
And then every hour somebody comes in and throws a bucket of ice water on you.