On Friday, June 18, the CIA Inspector General's report from May 2004 will be released, hopefully in an unredacted form. This report is anticipated to reveal the consequences of harsh detainee treatment that helped lead to the withdrawal of the Yoo-Bybee torture memos in 2004.
Last Friday, the ACLU obtained previously classified transcripts from the 2007 Guantanamo military tribunals (CSRTs) detailing the charges against several "high value" detainees, including the three known to be waterboarded, Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (al-Nashiri), and Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM).
In this diary, I examine (as a physician) the CSRT testimony, in order to explore further the reason why al-Nashiri was waterboarded only two times, versus 83 and 183 times for Zubaydah and KSM, respectively. I hope everyone will recognize that this merely is informed speculation. We will likely have a much better idea of the details of the medical outcomes of torture on Friday.