TITLE: GOP Candidate for Pennsylvania Special Election Is a Former Abu Ghraib Interrogation Consultant
SENTENCE 1: “The press refused to mention that in our system those who abused prisoners were punished as opposed to our enemies who encouraged abuse.”  In “The Unseen War,” Saccone spends two chapters discussing anecdotes in which other forms of interrogation human rights experts have criticized as torture should be embraced “when administered in proper measure and with proper skill.”  Saccone has long maintained that the simulated drowning of several suspects, a technique known as waterboarding, does not qualify as torture because it is quick and does not inflict permanent physical injury.
SENTENCE 2: Saccone told local media in Pittsburgh that he arrived in Abu Ghraib “long after the scandal that brought that wretched place such fame.” But the infamy of the scandal, in which contractors and military officers tortured and raped Iraqi detainees at the U.S.-operated prison, left a deep impression on Saccone.
SENTENCE 3: The Senate Intelligence Committee, however, found that Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in a single month, so brutally in fact that he became “completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth.” The Bush administration claimed that Zubaydah was a high-profile member of Al Qaeda and that through brutal interrogation, he had revealed ties between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

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