> At the SERE school and in the DoJ opinion, the subject’s airflow is disrupted by the firm application of a damp cloth over the air passages; the interrogator applies a small amount of water to the cloth in a controlled manner. By contrast, the Agency interrogator ... applied large volumes of water to a cloth that covered the detainee’s mouth and nose.
SMALL AMOUNT OF WATER ?????
When I was in SERE, they had 3 guys standing ready, each with a 5 gallon pail of ice water. They put a nasty gray tee-shirt over my face and mouth and then poured the ice water from the pails over the rag. The rag makes it so you can’t see what’s coming and can’t adjust your breathing to take a breath between buckets. A small amount of water is not 15 gallons.
It took 15 gallons? You must have successfully resisted for four or five minutes. Sounds like a record.