What difference was found between waterboarding and regular reunabout .
Jane Mayer wrote for The New Yorker:and continues to report:However , according to a declassified Justice Department memo attempting to justify torture which references a still - classified report of the CIA Inspector General on the CIA 's use of waterboarding , among other " enhanced " interrogation techniques , the CIA applied waterboarding to detainees " in a different manner " than the technique used in SERE training:The difference was in the manner in which the detainees ' breathing was obstructed .