President Bush’s legal counsel analyzed how far the U.S. could go to extract intelligence from those captured in the war on terror through the August 2002 memo otherwise referred to as one of the “torture memos”. The torture memos expressly justified the use of EITs to elicit information from detainees. EITs included, sleep deprivation, entomophobia exploitation, and waterboarding. These severe techniques were provided legal cover because the torture memo defined torture to be pain “difficult for the individual to endure and… of an intensity akin to the pain accompanying serious physical injury such as death or organ failure” (Greenberg 106). Additionally, John Yoo analyzed 18 USC 2430A, which makes it a crime for a person outside of the U.S.
