Former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee stated “before the House Judiciary Committee on May 26, 2010 that the CIA never sought approval of some of the [interrogation] practices they engaged in, such as dousing detainees with cold water to keep them awake, or forcing detainees to wear diapers or to soil themselves. To the amazement of many, he claimed that those techniques were never authorized, according to a transcript released by the Committee. That Bybee would absolve himself by shifting responsibility to the CIA is astounding, but he was probably reassured by President [Barack] Obama’s statements that no prosecutions of CIA operatives would ensue.”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 259