Description

A 18-page memo, dated August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA. Torture Memo, released 16 April 2009.

Regarding the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, Jay Bybee specifically authorizes:
1 - attention grasp;
2 - walling;
3 - facial hold;
4 - facial slap (insult slap);
5 - cramped confinement -- "placement of individual in a confined space" that is "usually dark... the dimensions of which restrict the individuals movements", ie a coffin;
6 - wall standing;
7 - stress positions
8 - sleep deprivation;
9 - insects placed in a confinement box -- specifically stinging insects;
10 - the waterboard -- in particular, concluding "the user of waterboarding constitutes a threat of imminent death"