Reply #214: He didn't intervene becuase that's part of an established interrogation regimine. [View All]

[ChadwickHenryWard]

Intense humiliation is part of an attempt to destroy a detainee's identity. It's the same reason they fuck up Korans. Interrogators trained at the School of the Americas used to do it to Marxist dissidents in Latin America - they tried to get them to betray one another, like Winston betrays Julia in 1984, because solidarity is the great organizing principle of socialist movements. Attacks on identity are part of a coordinated effort to regress detainees back to infancy, whereupon they will become dependent on the interrogator and thus unable to withhold information. Also, if one's mind is permanently turned to scrambled egg, one cannot assist in one's own defense should one ever see the inside of a courtroom, which is sometimes unavoidable.

Anyway, the point is that he didn't stop them because it was his suggestion, as a psychologist, to do that shit to him. He knows what it does, and he knows what it's used for. It was his reason for being there in the first place.