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Monday, September 18, 2006


Interrogation Tactics The CIA Is Seeking Authorization For Leaked To The Press

Oh lordy...

Details emerged yesterday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects. Newsweek magazine reported that a New York lawyer, Scott Horton, who has acted as an adviser to the US senate on interrogation methods, had acquired a list of the techniques. The details were corroborated by information obtained by the charity Human Rights Watch.

The techniques sought by the CIA are: induced hypothermia; forcing suspects to stand for prolonged periods; sleep deprivation; a technique called "the attention grab" where a suspect's shirt is forcefully seized; the "attention slap" or open hand slapping that hurts but does not lead to physical damage; the "belly slap"; and sound and light manipulation.


Sound and light manipulation are one thing, but belly slaps? Heaven help us. Such crude methods will make us just like the terrorists.

I think the big question is...will our nation's integrity ever recover from the revelation of these tactics?

Ok, sarcasm aside, is there really anyone out there willing to suggest that these tactics go to far when we're talking about gaining intelligence from a terror detainee that may thwart a terror plot and save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives?

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Comments

Avatar for student student

I thought I recalled that the sleep deprivation technique had been recalled because of its side effects…

(well, yeah, I thought they got rid of it because of some complaints or something)

Sleep? What sleep?

student student on September 18, 2006 at 09:09 pm

Tammi Bruce has a funny piece on her blog where she describes these techniques as comparable to going to one of her favorite niteclubs.  People pay good money for that.
The whole Dem “torture” meme is a joke.


If govt control of the economy were the way to go, the Soviet Union would be the richest, most powerful nation in the history of the world.

Thanks to Obama, America remains the only country where it is illegal to drill our own oil!

robert108 on September 18, 2006 at 09:24 pm
Avatar for Hypothyroidism

well testing national tolerance towards the news on how the “intelligence” is being collected is way to dangerous endevour for any governing party and the director of any agency of security. Remember the name Agency of Security, “security” meaning preventive measures, pre-amptiove actions, interegations is not exactly correlate here, so public might see things much different from what it actually is. News is manufacturing consent, portioning the information. In Europe for instance public tolerance gone down to zero, if you saw latest news on Pop’s comment on islam and what european community is expressing in this regards. Everyone condemming the Pop, but he only made a citation, he did not share his own view on it, and there is such a drastic negative reaction on the part of original european citizens.

Hypothyroidism on September 19, 2006 at 01:46 am
Avatar for realitybasedbob

He spent nearly a year in prison in Syria and made detailed allegations after his release in 2003 about extensive interrogation, beatings and whippings with electrical cables.

Maybe the whipped his belly?

realitybasedbob on September 19, 2006 at 06:13 am
Avatar for Daniel

hell, that’s probably worse than what our intelligence agents and special forces folk get thrown at them in training.  if we can do it to them, we should definitely be able to do it to people who want to blow us up.

Daniel on September 19, 2006 at 06:16 am
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