Deputy Chief of the Office of Legal Counsel John “Yoo’s March [14] 2003 opinion…declared that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming, and other crimes did not apply to the military interrogators in Guantanamo. …Among the practices the memo discussed as arguably legal were gouging a prisoner’s eyes out, dousing him with ‘scalding water, corrosive acid, or caustic substance,’ or ‘slitting an ear, nose, lip or disabling a tongue or limb.’ ”
– Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Pages 230-231