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I haven't located a second reference yet to this claim. Precedent is precedent. What already?

Reagan's DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff for Waterboarding Prisoners (click here)
By Jason Leopold, TruthOut.org.
Posted April 27, 2009.
George W. Bush's Justice Department said subjecting a person to the near drowning of waterboarding was not a crime and didn't even cause pain, but Ronald Reagan's Justice Department thought otherwise, prosecuting a Texas sheriff and three deputies for using the practice to get confessions.
Federal prosecutors secured a 10-year sentence against the sheriff and four years in prison for the deputies. But that 1983 case -- which would seem to be directly on point for a legal analysis on waterboarding two decades later -- was never mentioned in the four Bush administration opinions released last week....