Tag: Torture ("Enhanced Interrogation")

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Specials" and "ALL SCIENTISTS, ALL SCIENTISTS !!!"

About the “Torture Program”, a very interesting post at Invictus Blog – March 22, 2011

“Means and Ends: Newly Published Notes of Bruce Jessen Reveal Real Purpose of Bush’s Torture Program”


http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/means-and-ends-newly-published-notes-of.html

Extracts:

“One of the primary reasons exploitation is used on prisoners is to produce false confessions. Indeed, it was the torture of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi that was used to provide the false intelligence about Saddam Hussein seeking nuclear materials that was to provide a major casus belli for the United States for their war with Iraq. “

“Up until now, the primary narrative surrounding the torture scandal has been about the purported efficacy of using torture to produce intelligence in the “war on terror.” But the new Jessen material demonstrates that the program used as the basis for the “reverse-engineering” of the SERE torture techniques was a full-blown exploitation program, whose aims went far beyond the mere elicitation of information, but included the physical and psychological pressures to produce absolute compliance in prisoners for the purpose of false confessions, show trials, recruitment of spies, and medical experimentation.”

“My end of the bargain was that I had to verbally repeat my story, agreeing with anything they added, even when they dictated my thoughts, beliefs and actions incorrectly. They also fed me things to say about other detainees as well. I did so obediently, even though I knew they were all lies.”

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http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/means-and-ends-newly-published-notes-of.html

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By the way, where are the so brave, non ordinary, “special” “compliance scientists” who proudly embraced “interrogations” and who knows whatever else?
Shouldn’t these powerful and righteous “all professionals” , all “scientists” be speaking about their achievements with pride?

George Bush did…

And since they are , or believe to be , “special” , non ordinary people and above all “having more power than Bush”, they should step up to their “values” and proudly take responsibility for their “scientific achievements”. Isn’t that how it should be?

Or are they, men and women, soooooo brave in the shadows but cowards in the light ?

“…choose you this day whom ye will serve..” Joshua 24:15

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Now Available

Youtube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyWorthington1?feature=mhum

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazom)

Nine Years of Guantanamo. What Now? Jan 12, 2011


Watch on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HNc4c6OjU

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Now Available

Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyWorthington1?feature=mhum Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazom) Nine Years of Guantanamo. What Now? Jan 12, 2011Watch on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05HNc4c6OjU

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable

March 11, 2011 – by Josh RoginArticle at:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte””I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridicu…

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable

March 11, 2011 – by Josh Rogin Article at:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte “”I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid, and I don’t know why the DoD is doing it. Nevertheless, Manning is in the right place.” There are leaks everywhere in Washington

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable

March 11, 2011 – by Josh Rogin Article at:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte “”I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid, and I don’t know why the DoD is doing it. Nevertheless, Manning is in the right place.” There are leaks everywhere in Washington

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: No more "shame" – SEXING TORTURE

Sexing in the “slow torture”, “no-touch”: The torturer’s psyche and “protected umpunity”

“… But stripping is also sexually laden. It transposes sexual gestures, acts and innuendo from a strip club to the torture chamber. Thus sex is always present in the torture chamber whether the victim is a man or a woman. The sexing of torture is deeply grounded in the recesses of the torturer’s psyche.

Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algeria to Baghdad

“From 1950 to 1962, the CIA became involved in torture through a massive mind-control effort, with psychological warfare and secret research into human consciousness that reached a cost of a billion dollars annually – a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind.” This research produced “a new approach to torture that was psychological, not physical, perhaps best described as ‘no-touch torture.’“ It has also been referred to as “slow torture”.

Alfred McCoy – “A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War To the War On Terror“

Sexing torture in the “stealth, “slow”, “non touch” American Torture” hits the news and “SO WHAT?”

As torture, event after event, seems to be an integral part of American standard operating procedures and obviously goes unpunished in the United States, except for cases involving “few bad apples”, an article on the “slow torture” of 22 year-old man accused of leaking documents:

The National Shame of the US Military’s ‘Slow Torture’ of Bradley Manning

by John Grant – March 5 2011

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/494

“… All right! Enough of the PR-flak Orwellian crap. Everyone with a modicum of sense knows why the Quantico jailers are stripping Bradley Manning. They are stripping him because they have the power to strip him and they want to strip him. And they know that the majority of Americans and the mainstream press don’t give a damn what happens to this young man.

A friend asked me, “Why don’t they just water-board him?” It’s simple: They would if they could, but they can’t. Manning is an American and he has advocates. They can’t get away with the sorts of torture we used in the past in places like the Philippines and Vietnam and that the French used during their war in Algeria. The French experience is broken down and analyzed by Marna Lazreg in her book cited above based on archival research, diaries and interviews with torturers.

But do not fear: Our very resourceful and secret CIA learned from the French and, over the years with your tax dollars, added their own research on the topic. Here’s Alfred McCoy from his great book A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War To the War On Terror:…”

FULL ARTICLE AT:

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/494

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Destroying the Evidence" …in Egypt

Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture. Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture. A full report by McClatchy

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Destroying the Evidence" …in Egypt


Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office

Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture.

Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture.

A full report by McClatchy newspaper:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/05/109887/egyptian-protesters-storm-state.html

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Destroying the Evidence" …in Egypt

Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture. Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture. A full report by McClatchy

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA’s formula to "learned helplessness"

In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an “effective interrogation” methodology. It includes repeated references to keeping captives naked as part of the strategy for” breaking down their

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA’s formula to "learned helplessness"

In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an “effective interrogation” methodology. It includes repeated references to keeping captives naked as part of the strategy for” breaking down their resistance.”

Below, link to an article by Robert Parry published on March 4, 2011 (originally published September 12, 2009)

(Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 as the Internet’s first investigative magazine.)

Bush’s Interrogators Stressed Nudity

“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.”

Full article HERE:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/030411b.html

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Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA’s formula to "learned helplessness"

In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an “effective interrogation” methodology. It includes repeated references to keeping captives naked as part of the strategy for” breaking down their

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