Re: "I think you are really talking about the Phillippine Insurrection after the U.S. Annexed the Phillippines after the Spanish American War, not the Spanish American War."
Yes, I actually was.
(Used term "Spanish American War" imprecisely... when what I meant was the long period of gorilla warfare that trailed on for decades afterward in the Philippine resistance / fight for independence.)
After the Spanish-American War of 1898
After the Spanish American War of 1898 in the Philippines, the US Army used waterboarding which was called the "water cure" at the time. Reports of "cruelties" from soldiers stationed in the Philippines led to Senate Hearings on US activity in the Philippines.
Testimony described the waterboarding of Tobeniano Ealdama "while supervised by …Captain/Major Edwin F. Glenn (Glenn Highway)."[cite this quote]
Elihu Root, United States Secretary of War, ordered a court martial for Glenn in April 1902."[48] During the trial, Glenn "maintained that the torture of Ealdama was 'a legitimate exercise of force under the laws of war.'"[49]
Though some reports seem to confuse Ealdama with Glenn,[50] he was found guilty and "sentenced to a one-month suspension and a fifty-dollar fine," the leniency of the sentence due to the "circumstances" presented at the trial.[49]
President Theodore Roosevelt privately rationalized the instances of "mild torture, the water cure" but publicly called for efforts to "prevent the occurrence of all such acts in the future." In that effort, he ordered the court-martial of General Jacob H. Smith on the island of Samar, "where some of the worst abuses had occurred." When the court-martial found only that he had acted with excessive zeal, Roosevelt disregarded the verdict and had the General dismissed from the Army.[51]
Roosevelt soon declared victory in the Philippines, and the public lost interest in "what had, only months earlier, been alarming revelations."[49]
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