Memos: CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation

[babylonsister]

Memos: CIA pushed limits on sleep deprivation

By PAMELA HESS and DEVLIN BARRETT
Associated Press Writers


WASHINGTON (AP) -- A year after the Bush administration abandoned its harshest interrogation methods, CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007, keeping him awake for six straight days with permission from government lawyers.

Interrogators kept the unidentified detainee awake by chaining him to the walls and floor of a cell, according to government officials and memos issued with an internal CIA report. The Obama administration released the internal report this week.

Though the detainee's name and critical details are blacked out in the memos, there is only one detainee known to have been in CIA custody at that time: Mohammed Rahim al-Afghani, an alleged al-Qaida operator and translator for Osama bin Laden.

The documents show that even as the Bush administration was scaling back its use of severe interrogation techniques, the CIA was still pushing the boundaries of what the administration's own legal counsel considered acceptable treatment.

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[kentuck]

1. inhumane.

criminal. We should expect more from Americans.

[JonLP24]

2. 6 days straight of no sleep

I've never been waterboarded and I've been up no later then 3 days but 6 days straight of no sleep seems to me to be a more terrible form of torture then waterboarding. Very inhumane and justice needs to be served in this regard.

[ThomWV]

3. I believe if you read the Report you 'll see it went to 7+ days

I don't recall the number of hours cited in the report but it came to seven days plus a few hours. I agree with you, inhumane is the right word.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R the 2007 memo...damn..just damn. People need to read it