CIA's Black Sites, Illuminated

Source: LA Times

"These papers may provide the only picture that history gets of what life was like in these facilities," said Tom Malinowski, Washington director of Human Rights Watch.

The black sites not only imprisoned men but reduced them to a near helpless state. The aim, as outlined in one document, was to teach every detainee "to perceive and value his personal welfare, comfort and immediate needs more than the information he is protecting."

The prisoners' arrival -- almost always in diapers -- was engineered to achieve that end. After being shaved, stripped and photographed nude, detainees were examined by CIA medical and psychological personnel. Then came a preliminary interrogation that would determine the prisoners' fate. Only those considered extremely cooperative would avoid a trio of techniques designed to produce a "baseline, dependent" state: the deprivation of clothes, solid food and sleep.

Follow-up sessions would start with the prisoner standing with his back against a wall and a towel or collar to prevent whiplash wrapped around his neck. He could be thrown against the wall just once "to make a point, or 20 to 30 times consecutively."

Prisoners so abhorred the repeated slamming that they would remain in so-called stress positions, such as painful kneeling postures, for hours to avoid a return to the wall, according to one Dec. 30, 2004, memo that amounts to a CIA blueprint for breaking a detainee's will.

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Detainees could be kept in a large box for 18 hours a day, but small boxes for only two hours at a time. They could be hosed with water for 15 minutes, but the air temperature had to exceed 65 degrees if they weren't to be given a towel.

The detainee "finds himself in the complete control of Americans," the memo said. "The procedures he is subjected to are precise, quiet and almost clinical."

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cia-detainee31-2009aug31,0,1384401,full.story

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(Please read the article at link as a snip here or there does not do it justice.)

If this were American soldiers we were talking about, Cheney wouldn't be saying 'oh well...' and it is obvious that these crimes against our Constitution need to be investigated. To all those freepers out there demanding we follow the Constitution, where is your outrage now?

Cheney got your tongue?

The Perpetrators must be identified and imprisoned and asset-stripped. Otherwise, we are lower than the apes we descended from.

do not engage in torture!

If we were recent descendants of apes, we should be disowned for our bad behavior.

we should be so proud. :puke: :argh: :grr:

the whole time, during the last 8 yrs, the true enemy was always within us.

K&R

Who hated our freedoms.

We should have looked to the future after WWII.

And it looks like they'll have the last word.

As usual, Americans are getting the Disney sanitized, dumbed-down version from the MSM. Here's the British account of a UK citizen, Binyam Mohamed, who was tortured and brainwashed into admitting a "dirty-bomb" plot that didn't really exist: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/01/18/british-torture-victim-binyam-mohamed-to-be-released-from-guantanamo/

are lying 100% of the time.

Early on people said that you don't get quality intelligence for a tortured, delerious soul.

There is absolutely nothing credible coming out of his mouth or any of the others. How could they prove their statements. I believe nothing they say. We have no yellowcake, we had forged documents. We have billions of our money missing. We have private torturer-executioners and paid participating psychiatrists and lawyers not worth the paper their licenses were printed on.

Perhaps we even had our own Mengele. I hope not.

They did it not in my name. I protested. And now they must pay the price.

amerika has a long history of bad behavior and torture

and every perverse technique inflicted upon others, oh how sweet it would be. :P

When everybody's rich, the economy is beautiful and there are no more wars on the planet?