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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 01:13 PM
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Taxpayers Paying BIG BUCKS So These Assholes Can VIOLENTLY TORTURE!
Edited on Tue Jul-17-07 01:15 PM by kpete
Degradation and manhandling: Document reveals US interrogation techniques RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday July 17, 2007

After conducting a 10-month investigation that consisted of more than 70 interviews, as well as a detailed review of public and classified documents, Vanity Fair writer Katherine Eban delivers the fullest portrait yet of James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the C.I.A.-contracted psychologists who were put in charge of designing the aggressive interrogation methods known as 'SERE school' techniques (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) that came to be used during the Iraq war," states a press release sent to RAW STORY. "Eban also reveals a never-before-seen memo that details how the U.S. military sought to treat detainees at Guantanamo Bay."

Eban writes of the memo, "In a bizarre mixture of solicitude and sadism, the memo details how to calibrate the infliction of harm. It dictates that the '(insult) slap will be initiated no more than 12–14 inches (or one shoulder width) from the detainee's face … to preclude any tendency to wind up or uppercut.' And interrogators are advised that, when stripping off a prisoner's clothes, 'tearing motions shall be downward to prevent pulling the detainee off balance.' In short, the sere-inspired interrogations would be violent. And therefore, psychologists were needed to help make these more dangerous interrogations safer."

The press release continues:

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Despite their questionable credentials, Eban reports that the principals at Mitchell, Jessen & Associates are raking in money. According to people familiar with their compensation, they get paid more than $1,000 per day plus expenses, tax-free, for their overseas work. “Taxpayers are paying at least half a million dollars a year for these two knuckleheads to do voodoo,” says one of the people familiar with their pay arrangements.

more at:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/07/torture200707
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Degradation_and_manhanding_Document_reveals_US_0717.html
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