EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist's Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush's Torture Program

[malaise]

http://www.truth-out.org/cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-bushs-torture-program68542
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Dr. Bruce Jessen's handwritten notes describe some of the torture techniques that were used to "exploit" "war on terror" detainees in custody of the CIA and Department of Defense.

Bush administration officials have long asserted that the torture techniques used on "war on terror" detainees were utilized as a last resort in an effort to gain actionable intelligence to thwart pending terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests abroad.

But the handwritten notes obtained exclusively by Truthout drafted two decades ago by Dr. John Bruce Jessen, the psychologist who was under contract to the CIA and credited as being one of the architects of the government's top-secret torture program, tell a dramatically different story about the reasons detainees were brutalized and it was not just about obtaining intelligence. Rather, as Jessen's notes explain, torture was used to "exploit" detainees, that is, to break them down physically and mentally, in order to get them to "collaborate" with government authorities. Jessen's notes emphasize how a "detainer" uses the stresses of detention to produce the appearance of compliance in a prisoner.
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Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine becomes more important by the day

[tcaudilllg]

1. I think Mr. Jensen should face the APA.

Uh huh.

[Selatius]

2. It is also possible to use torture to destroy a person's mind, which might contain damning testimony

I'm sure with the right amount of stress and physical pain, a person can be pushed beyond the breaking point into psychosis.

[loudsue]

3. Like Bradley Manning? n/t

[Senator]

4. K&+R