Editing Abu Zubaydah (section)

== Waterboarding ==
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Zubaydah was one of three or more high-value detainees to be waterboarded.<ref name="ICRC" /> The Bush administration in 2007 said that Zubaydah had been waterboarded once.<ref>Brian Ross, [https://abcnews.go.com/images/Blotter/brianross_kiriakou_transcript1_blotter071210.pdf "CIA–Zubaydah: Interview with John Kiriakou: Transcript"], ABC News, December 10, 2007</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110608164719/http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2007/cyb20071212.asp#1 "Lauer Stirs Scandal Over How Water Boarding Saved Lives"], Media Research Center, December 12, 2007</ref><ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/agent.tapes/#cnnSTCText "Ex-CIA Agent: Waterboarding 'Saved Lives'"] CNNPolitics.com, December 11, 2007</ref> [[John Kiriakou]], a CIA officer who had seen the cables regarding Zubaydah's interrogation, publicly said in 2009 that Zubaydah was waterboarded once for 35 seconds before he started talking.<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0420/p99s01-duts.html Liam Stack, "Is waterboarding effective? CIA did it 266 times on two prisoners"], ''Christian Science Monitor'', April 20, 2009</ref><ref>[https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=3978231 Richard Esposito & Brian Ross, "Coming in From the Cold: CIA Spy Calls Waterboarding Necessary But Torture"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090502165534/http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3978231 |date=May 2, 2009 }}, ABC News, December 10, 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/business/media/28abc.html?ref=business Brian Stetler, "How '07 Interview Tilted Torture Debate"], ''The New York Times'', April 27, 2009</ref>

Intelligence sources claimed as early as 2008 that Zubaydah had been waterboarded no less than ten times in the span of one week.<ref name="Mayer 2009" /> Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times within the month of August 2002, the month the CIA was authorized to use this enhanced interrogation techniques on him.<ref name="CIA interrogrations" /><ref name="May302005BradburyMemo">[http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/aclu/olc_05302005_bradbury.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611184307/http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/aclu/olc_05302005_bradbury.pdf|date=June 11, 2009}}[[Steven G. Bradbury|Steven Bradbury]]<span>, "Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, Senior Deputy General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency Re: Application of United States Obligations Under Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture to Certain Techniques that May Be Used in the Interrogation of High Value al Qaeda Detainees"</span>, Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel, May 30, 2005</ref><ref>Michael Scherer and Bobby Ghosh [https://web.archive.org/web/20090420220922/http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1892708,00.html "How Waterboarding Got Out of Control"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', April 20, 2009.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Shane |first=Scott |date=April 19, 2009 |title=Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/20detain.html |access-date=June 15, 2015 |work=New York Times}}</ref><ref>[http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-torture27-2009apr27,0,6092738.story "Taking on Torture"] ''Los Angeles Times'', April 27, 2009</ref> In January 2010, Kiriakou, in a memoir, said, "Now we know that Zubaydah was waterboarded eighty-three times in a single month, raising questions about how much useful information he actually supplied."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jeff Stein |date=January 26, 2010 |title=CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding; A study in "enhanced reporting techniques |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/26/cia_man_retracts_claim_on_waterboarding?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full |work=Foreign Policy}}</ref>