CIA rejected Bill Nelson’s request to be waterboarded?

In 2009 it was learned that the U.S. had waterboarded two al-Qaeda terror suspects a total of 266 times.

Documents revealed at the time that waterboarding was used 183 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who admitted planning the 9/11 attacks, and 83 times on alleged al-Qaeda senior commander Abu Zubaydah.

After taking office, Barack Obama banned waterboarding and overturned a Bush administration policy that it did not amount to torture.

But during the years after 9/11, when reports first surfaced that the U.S. was committing to such practices that many alleged was torture, there were a few intrepid souls who undertook the practice, to see for themselves whether or not it constituted a cruel and unusual act.

This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.