I don't care at all about cops and tasers. And the detainees subjected to EIT had every bit of the safeguards as JoG.
Yes, the simplest example stumps you.
And I'm not aware that there is video of the treatment of the detainees in those black sites. Over 100 of them. Please point me to those videos so I can verify that the conditions for them were similar to what JoG faced here in America on some U.S. facility, with his friends or colleagues conducting the procedure.
Here's how the CIA described the waterboarding of one detainee: Abu Zubaydah was described as "hysterical" and "distressed to the level that he was unable to effectively communicate."-^ Waterboarding sessions "resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary leg, chest and arm spasms" and "hysterical pleas . In at least one waterboarding session, Abu Zubaydah
became completely unresponsive,with bubbles rising through his open,full mouth." Accordingto CIA records, Abu Zubaydah
remained unresponsive until medical intervention, when he regained
consciousness and expelled "copious amounts of liquid."
And according to the records, this is the overall environment in which the waterboarding happened: "The use of the CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques-
including "walling, attention grasps, slapping, facial hold, stress positions, cramped confinement, white noise and sleep deprivation"—continued in "varying combinations, 24 hours a day" for 17 straight days, through August 20, 2002}^^ When Abu Zubaydah was left alone during this period, he was placed in a stress position, left on the waterboard with a cloth over his face, or locked in one of two confinement boxes. According to the cables,Abu Zubaydah was also subjected to the waterboard "2-4 times a day...with multiple iterations of the watering cycle during each application."'^^
You're telling me anyone who did this voluntarily as a learning exercise faced anything like similar conditions? Give me a break - you don't even believe it.
BTW, I also doubt if JoG got to experience this: "On November ,2002,a detainee who had been held
partially nude and chained to a concrete floor died from suspected hypothermia at the facility." Or being kept awake for 180 hours, or sleeping in a small box, or on good days a coffin, always in solitary confinement. Etc.