torture

anyone with a brain knows what torture is and you can denied that it is tortue until the cows come home but everyone knows the prisoners were subjected to tortue.

torture

–noun
1.
the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
2.
a method of inflicting such pain.
3.
Often, tortures. the pain or suffering caused or undergone.
4.
extreme anguish of body or mind; agony.
5.
a cause of severe pain or anguish.

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has urged the CIA to release memos which he says show harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding work.

Alberto Gonzales approved harsh techniques.Connie rice approved harsh techniques.
Bush Memos Suggest Abuse Isn’t Torture If a Doctor Is There.
This week, the Pentagon declassified a 2003 memo in which a Justice Department lawyer essentially told the U.S. military that it could subject suspected terrorists to harsh treatment as long as it didn't cause "death, organ failure or permanent damage." If that bloodless phraseology seems familiar, it's because this memo from then-Deputy Assistant Atty. Gen. John C. Yoo echoed an earlier document he drafted for the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel that came to be known as the "torture memo." The daughter of the vice president, Liz Cheney said the word torture was never used in the memos.