Interrogation, Torture and Confessions

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Interrogation, Torture and Confessions

zogger

Wed Jul 02 14:37:00 -0700 2008

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Now isn't this interesting. The methods used for harsh interrogation against "enemy combatants" and which the administration claims are not torture, come from a training manual that was based on captured documents relating to methods used by the Chinese against US POWs during the Korean war. It was copied just about verbatim, the title changed, and used in training to precondition US intelligence agents and soldiers to resist such treatment if captured. Back then, the government and what returned POWs we had said the techniques used lead directly to brainwashing and false confessions, and basically constituted a combination of psychological and physical torture.

The only change made in the chart presented at GuantÃ¡namo was to drop its original title: "Communist Coercive Methods for Eliciting Individual Compliance."

Interrogation, Torture and Confessions

Charles E Hill

Wed Jul 02 15:11:47 -0700 2008
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And in related news...

In the first case to review the U.S. government's secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a U.S. appeals court found that accusations against a Chinese man held for more than six years had been based on bare and unverifiable claims.

The unclassified parts of the decision were released Monday.

With some derision for the arguments of the administration of President George W. Bush, a three-judge panel said the government had contended that its accusations against a detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.

The court compared that with the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem "The Hunting of the Snark": "I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true."

"This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true," said the panel of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

they are scum

Thomas Lord

Wed Jul 02 19:11:43 -0700 2008
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First hand knowledge. You don't know a tenth of it.

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Bhima

Wed Jul 02 23:39:18 -0700 2008
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Water boarding and torture in general is nothing new to Americans. In the post civil war era operators of mines, mills, and foundries used blacks in coerced labor camps. The men who ran these camps routinely used water boarding and other forms of torture on the prisoners/slaves with documented examples appearing as late as the 1930s.