Bushco's Torture Chambers Stressed "Forced Nudity & Physical Abuse" To Emphasize "Complete Control"

[kpete]

Bush's Interrogators Stressed Nudity

By Robert Parry
September 12, 2009

The CIA shared with George W. Bush’s Justice Department the details of how an interrogation strategy – with an emphasis on forced nudity and physical abuse – could train prisoners in “learned helplessness” and demonstrate “the complete control of Americans.”

http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/082409/olcremand/2004olc97.pdf

The 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, contains repeated references to keeping suspected al-Qaeda captives – called “high-value detainees” or HVDs – naked as part of the strategy for breaking down their resistance.

The first of several “specific conditioning interrogation techniques” lists “Nudity. The HVD’s clothes are taken and he remains nude until the interrogators provide clothes to him.” (Underline in original.)

The CIA said the prisoner is kept nude (or occasionally dressed in a diaper) while being subjected to other “conditioning techniques,” sleep deprivation and a bland diet of Ensure. Nudity continues while interrogators apply other more aggressive techniques designed to emphasize a prisoner’s helplessness.

The background paper, which was prepared for the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and released last month in response to an ACLU lawsuit, described in bureaucratic wording the process used to interrogate a suspected terrorist after his capture and “rendition” to a CIA-run “black site.”

more:
http://consortiumnews.com/2009/091209.html

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Ex-Gitmo Official: U.S. Should Kill 100,000 Muslim "Zealots"
by Valtin
Sun Sep 13, 2009 at 07:59:41 PM PDT

This story reports on an extraordinary 2004 article by a Harvard lecturer and former Chief of Neuropsychiatry at Guantanamo Bay, which made the shocking claim that "hard-core zealots" had "brains that are structurally and functionally different from us." Furthermore, the article stated, 100,000 "zealots" within the Muslim body politic would have to be eliminated, the way "malignant cells" are removed from a healthy body.

The author of the article, "Terrorism - The Underlying Causes," in the Winter/Spring 2004 issue of the Intelligencer, Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies (PDF), house organ for the American Federation of Intelligence Officers (AFIO), was William Henry Anderson, M.D. Anderson's piece received a stinging protest letter to the editor from psychologist and military ethics expert, Jean Maria Arrigo, but I'm not aware of any other complaint regarding this racist, fascistic article in the pages of a major intelligence services journal.

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Let us consider terrorism with an analogy from medicine -- that of terrorism as a cancer. There are about 1.4 billion Muslims in the world. Embedded withing this healthy body are, perhaps, 100,000 people who are eager and active in pursuit of the goal of killing us. Just as successful treatment of cancer requires killing of the malignant cells, we will need to kill this small minority, since we have no evidence that they can be induced to change their minds.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/13/781648/-Ex-Gitmo-Official:-U.S.-Should-Kill-100,000-Muslim-Zealots

[jwirr]

1. The sexual abuse does the same thing and emphasizes the prisoners

helplessness.

[Bandit]

2. Haven't we already killed about ten times that many people?

How many more do we have to kill to get close to his magic number?

[midnight]

3. Sounds like the deciders are in need of some mental health.

Bring the troops home.