Bush's Interrogators Stressed Nudity

[JohnyCanuck]

Editor's Note: The disclosure that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning was subjected to seven hours of forced nudity on Wednesday -- amid new pressures aimed at getting him to identify others involved in the WikiLeaks case -- recalled how the Bush administration used nudity and other abusive tactics to break down "war on terror" detainees.

In 2004, the CIA told President George W. Bush's lawyers how useful forced nudity was for instilling "learned helplessness" in prisoners, though the repeated emphasis on nudity took on a lewd and sadistic quality, as Robert Parry reported in this article from the archives: (Originally published 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."

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."

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.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/From-The-Archives--Bush-s-by-Robert-Parry-110304-464.html

[TheKentuckian]

1. It is a method to depersonalize and dehumanize.

Just an animal in a cage type deal.

[calimary]

2. DAMN.

Horrendous. Straight from the minds of complete sociopathic SICKOs.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Republicon Family Values -- a cesspool of morality

[Octafish]

4. CIA boss class learned a lot from the NAZIs.

The Gestapo Inheritance

[Hubert Flottz]

7. Dogs and all.

Same shit different assholes.

[Octafish]

11. Possibly my least favorite image where the subject was still alive.

Too bad about America.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. A sad state of affairs...

"We" have become "Them"

Our government's "morals" are oral!(they all talk the talk, but they no longer dare to walk the walk) No wonder bad things have been happening to our country. Other countries laugh at us now when our politicians go abroad and talk to some despotic murdering asshole about "Human Rights." The damage the Bush gang did abroad to America's good name, was even worse than the damage the neocons did to their own people here in the USA.

The republicans God and Jesus are a far cry from the ones I heard about at Sunday School. The Bible don't say "thou shall not kill, unless the other guy has some great plunder"

[CoffeeCat]

5. Manning hasn't been charged with a crime, correct?

Manning is awaiting trial and hasn't been charged with a crime, correct?

If so, is this how we can expect anyone who is "innocent until proven guilty" to be treated in this country?

It appears that they're trying to wear him down. I'm sure they'll pull out all of the stops until he finally
admits to everything--including the Jimmy Hoffa murder.

SICKENING.

[Celebration]

9. He has been charged

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/bradley-manning-more-charge/

[CoffeeCat]

10. Thank you (nt)

[tblue37]

14. But NOT convicted, yet he is being punishd very severely. Regardless

of what they call what they are doing to him, it is punishment.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. ...and the home of the brave!

We have become what we profess to hate.

[jwirr]

8. A bunch of sex depraved interrogators, if you ask me.

[TransitJohn]

13. It's all about trying to get him to sign a confession.

It'll all go so much smoother for the prosecution if they can avoid a messy trial.

[fascisthunter]

15. a form of humiliation and punishment

weird...

[CommonSensePLZ]

16. He's a hero of the truth and decency, even if they would have us believe otherwise

Here's what really sucks though: The people who did the stuff he revealed might never get in any trouble at all because the military is pretty much holding all the cards in this case and of course is not going to penalize itself.