Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Is Republicans the real commies?
Their slavish imitation of Communist methods in all things can lead one to that conclusion. The Soviet method may be preferred, but the Chinese variations are also used.
The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”The problem with Chicom interrogation methods is a simple one. They are designed to elicit confessions, not truth. To get the victim to admit what the torturers want him to say. And to make good videos so Cheney could get his rocks off.
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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