CIA director names 3 on whom waterboarding was used Posted: 12:31 PM ET WASHINGTON (CNN) – CIA Director Michael Hayden, responding to questions from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, publicly named for the first time the three detainees who had been subjected to the harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding.
“It was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It was used on Abu Zubayda, and it was used on (Abd al-Rahim) al-Nashiri,” he said. “The CIA has not used waterboarding for almost five years. We used it against these three high-valued detainees because of the circumstances of the time.
“Very critical of those circumstances was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were imminent. In addition to that, my agency and our community at large had limited knowledge about al Qaeda and its workings.”
–From Justice Producer Terry Frieden