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Senator: Government Used Communist Torture Techniques Aimed at Extracting FALSE Confessions
Washington’s Blog
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Senator Levin, in commenting on the Senate Armed Services Committee report on torture declassified today, drops the following bombshell:
With last week’s release of the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinions, it is now widely known that Bush administration officials distorted Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape “SERE” training – a legitimate program used by the military to train our troops to resist abusive enemy interrogations – by authorizing abusive techniques from SERE for use in detainee interrogations. Those decisions conveyed the message that abusive treatment was appropriate for detainees in U.S. custody. They were also an affront to the values articulated by General Petraeus.
In SERE training, U.S. troops are briefly exposed, in a highly controlled setting, to abusive interrogation techniques used by enemies that refuse to follow the Geneva Conventions. The techniques are based on tactics used by Chinese Communists against American soldiers during the Korean War for the purpose of eliciting false confessions for propaganda purposes. Techniques used in SERE training include stripping trainees of their clothing, placing them in stress positions, putting hoods over their heads, subjecting them to face and body slaps, depriving them of sleep, throwing them up against a wall, confining them in a small box, treating them like animals, subjecting them to loud music and flashing lights, and exposing them to extreme temperatures. Until recently, the Navy SERE school also used waterboarding. The purpose of the SERE program is to provide U.S. troops who might be captured a taste of the treatment they might face so that they might have a better chance of surviving captivity and resisting abusive and coercive interrogations.
Senator Levin then documents that SERE techniques were deployed as part of an official policy on detainees, and that SERE instructors helped to implement the interrogation programs.
The senior Army SERE psychologist warned in 2002 against using SERE training techniques during interrogations in an email to personnel at Guantanamo Bay, because:
[T]he use of physical pressures brings with it a large number of potential negative side effects… When individuals are gradually exposed to increasing levels of discomfort, it is more common for them to resist harder… If individuals are put under enough discomfort, i.e. pain, they will eventually do whatever it takes to stop the pain. This will increase the amount of information they tell the interrogator, but it does not mean the information is accurate. In fact, it usually decreases the reliability of the information because the person will say whatever he believes will stop the pain… Bottom line: the likelihood that the use of physical pressures will increase the delivery of accurate information from a detainee is very low. The likelihood that the use of physical pressures will increase the level of resistance in a detainee is very high… (p. 53).
Given that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and other high-ranking Bush officials insisted that SERE techniques used by the communists to extract false confessions be used – even after the head psychologist and others warned that it would not provide accurate information – does this mean that the torture program was geared towards obtaining false confessions?
This question is bolstered by the fact that all of the top experts on interrogation say that torture doesn’t work.
And why else would the U.S. waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in one month (about 6 times a day for 31 days straight)?
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April 22nd, 2009 at 4:16 am
Cheney should be “enhanced interrogated.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:31 am
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Let us not ever forget what happened on 9/11 and the men who let it happen!
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:38 am
well well well the propaganda, well i should say lying machines are in full motion this morning abc, cbs .nbc. first they come on with a statment about irans leader mr a the unpredictable leader of iran we know who is unpredictable right along with him that would be the greedy criminal unpredictable jews Israel . and i like the way the the idiot lying news is what i will refer to them from now on played down the torcher crimes when we all know bush, obama ,Clintons all them bastards in the white house are criminals paid off bought off lying scum of the earth. its ok we know you cant change your criminal ways .
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 am
ummmm, this is all BS. Amerika does not torture. It’s called interrogation people! Get a grip. The police should be able to do this too! Maybe then we could get rid of all you kooks once and for all, and get rid of all those drug people too! Stop saying bad things about MY goverment. The people on the TV don’t have a problem with how things are going, so you kooks just need to SHUT THE HELL UP!
BTW did you guys watch Idol the other night? Wasn’t that awesome? I’m so happy I have a nice big TV and such good programming. I don’t know what you people’s problem is when we have such good stuff here in the land of the free.
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April 22nd, 2009 at 5:03 am
well said, what does Brittany think about this? Do you think Brad and Angelina will really break up?
chocolate covered manure Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:38 am
hay jimbob You sound like a guy that will endorse any kind of cruelty and another human being as long as your not one that’s being tortured. Did you ever stop to think that some of the suspects may be innocent? You say the people on TV don’t have a problem with this, I assume your referring to the main stream reporters. They don’t have a problem with this issue because they want to keep their jobs and like you are phony flag waivers . Maybe you will change your opinion of interrogation methods when you are strapped to a chair and two
goons are slipping the shit out of worthless life.
OGuillory Reply:
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
uh, chocloate dude…..I think jimbob was being sarcastic………..I could be wrong….but…..I think he is pointing a finger at us “dancing with the stars” populace who think all is good if our TV sets work…….
Regards,
O’Guillory
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:51 am
False people getting false confessions perfect.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:57 am
Hey hey, hear hear! A jewish member of congress finally speaks on the obvious truth, now that’s one less person to be hassled by anti-judaists. Now the only problem is when jewish members of congress or any members of congress (this has already taken place in the UK, to bad we’re a police state over here) will talk about how many future terrorists attacks in Israel have been stalled by bombing the shit out of the gaza strip. Because I just don’t get the picture, sorry. Whenever I listen to Peres I get the impression of a compulsive person whom I’d never let run a “country’s” foreign policy. (all countries are artificial, but there are some that are even more so than others, namely Amerikkka and a possibly chauvinist Israel, just to name those that prominently might come to mind)
(Kaufman, you’re awesome!)
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Round, Round get a round I get around.
Well hello Mr Cheney.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Well of course it was geared towards false confessions, If you need a patsy and he’s uncooperative, just torture him until he goes along with it.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 am
This “moral” nut will get the entire world blown up.
Their World Order is being run by a bunch of lunatics
pat
April 23rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Hello everyone,
It’s me the fake environmentalist, reminding you that Solar variation is not the cause of climate change or the relationship of Jupiter to the Earth. Don’t believe that science crap!
Believe in politics! Believe that CO2 is causing global warming and ignore the face that we had a medievel warm period when we had no factories or cars. C’mon guys I need to sell some carbon credits badly. I have to pay the heating bill of my 20,000 sqare foot house!