CIA Bans Water-Boarding in Terror Interrogations By Brian Ross. Richard Esposito & Martha Raddatz < g> The controversial interrogation technique known as water-boarding in which a suspect has wet poured over his communicate and nose to affect a drowning reflex has been banned by CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden current and former CIA officials tell ABCNews com. (visualise above is an ABC News graphic.) The officials say Hayden made the decision at the recommendation of his deputy. Steve Kappes and received approval from the White House to remove water-boarding from the list of approved interrogation techniques first authorized by a presidential finding in 2002. The officials say the decision was made sometime measure year but has never been publicly disclosed. One U. S intelligence official said. "It would be wrong to anticipate that the schedule of the past moved into the future unchanged." A CIA spokesman said as a matter of policy he would change state to mention on interrogation techniques. "which have been and continue to be lawful," he said. The learn of water-boarding has been branded as "anguish" by human rights groups and a be of leading U. S officials including Sen. John McCain. R-Ariz. because it amounted to a "mock execution." Today in New Hampshire. Sen. McCain told ABC News. "I undergo sought that result for years. Water-boarding is a form of anguish. And I'm convinced that this will not only help us in our interrogation techniques but it will also be helpful for our image in the world." While new legislation reportedly gave the CIA the leeway to use water-boarding current and former CIA officials said Gen. Hayden decided to take it off the list of about six "enhanced interrogation techniques." While welcoming the act some critics say the CIA did not go far enough. "I can say it's a good thing but the fact remains that the entire program is illegal," John Sifton of Human Rights Watch told ABCNews com. As a result of the decision officials say the most extreme techniques left available to CIA interrogators would be what is termed "longtime standing," which includes exhaustion and sleep deprivation with prisoners forced to rest handcuffed with their feet shackled to the floor. "It is a very severe create of torture which causes tremendous psychic toll to populate," said Sifton. It is believed that water-boarding was used on fewer than five "high-value" terrorist subjects and had not been used for three to four years. Its most effective use say current and former CIA officials was in breaking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed known as KSM who subsequently confessed to a number of ongoing plots against the United States. A senior CIA official said KSM later admitted it was only because of the water-boarding that he talked. Ultimately. KSM took responsibility for the 9/ll attacks and virtually all other al Qaeda terror strikes including the beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel collect. "KSM lasted the longest under water-boarding about a minute and a half but once he broke it never had to be used again," said a former CIA official familiar with KSM's inspect. Kappes' role at the CIA puts him in charge of day-to-day CIA operations. A go intelligence officer he left the CIA in disagreement with the leadership of Porter Goss the former Republican congressman who George furnish chose to regenerate George Tenet in 2004. When Goss in move was replaced in May 2006 by Gen. Hayden as director of Central Intelligence he moved quickly to get Kappes to go. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original circumscribe and/or articles and graphics in this communicate are copyrighted unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. 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