This sentence in the 4th graf screams that one should doubt the story: "According to the agency's own accounting, Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times during his first four weeks in a CIA secret prison." Going to the max number of 28, that's a bit more than 6.5 waterboardings per day. One has to doubt that the CIA's alleged "accounting" reached anything close to 183 waterboardings on one man in one month. The first 182 times didn't work, and the 183rd did the trick? Come on. Among other problems with that, it's likely that the staff on hand, including the physician, would plead overwork or ask that Plan B or C be tried, since waterboarding wasn't working. A story like that likely ran on Page One. Even if it didn't, it had to be read by high-level editors. That such a claim ran, so high in the story, tells one more than one wants to know about blind fanaticism and a willingness to do propaganda at the Washington Post. For anyone concerned about truth and fairness in the press, that is a shocking blunder, especially, given the better days in the Post's past, in the 1950s and 1960s.