According to human rights lawyer John Sifton, the CIA tortured some of its detainees in the War on Terror so severely that it had to take measures to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.
Sifton, who is the executive director of One World Research, told an interviewer for Russia Today that there was both a CIA detention program and a military detention program and that “The CIA program was by far the most secretive. … That’s the one that only had a few dozen detainees at any given time — but it’s the one that saw the biggest abuses, the most serious forms of torture.”
Ok. What Sifton is getting at is that both the CIA and the military had separate ‘interrogation’ programmes. The military one was a bit rough and ready and many of the detainees died under duress. The CIA one was more planned and methodical, but with few deaths. The implication is that they used methods to keep the detainees alive during torture. This seems to be mostly speculation, but the interview (below) does contain some interesting information on the whole sick taxpayer funded system of detainee abuse.
Anyone interested in gathering intelligence from war prisoners should read the book “Slow Burn” by Orrin DeForest. He was a CIA supervisor in one of the most violent districts in Vietnam during the war. His methods were effective and didn’t include torture.
ARVN soldiers just beat the piss out prisoners and got nothing. By keeping prisoners isolated from one another and cross checking their information DeForest was able to get proper intel.
His interrogation facilities were more like secured hotels than prisons. Although he was able to pacify the district using intelligence in this way the war was essentially over at that point, so the experiment was moot.
#20 What’s the matter pedrito, afraid to say what you really think? Afraid to say you like torture?
#21 Thank you Chris, that point needs to be made over and over. Torturing to get intel DOESN’T WORK.
#22 But of course I do. Why else do you think I’m registering as a demagogue? I wanna be amongst the first to bring down that unfair blockade against the peaceful castro monarchy, right next to fatso Moore.
Someone please decode Pedro’s rationalization of torture by America by referencing Castro. I think he is implying Castro tortures so it’s ok?
I can’t find a gibberish to English translation on google.
Why torture when you can just splatter a terrorist’s brain all over the battlefield.
No muss, no fuss, no gitmo
OK, you loose the whining from the left, but sacrifices must be made.
I have been tortured. I waited in line at a Division of Motor Vehicles. I’ve had my car slammed in the rear by a car load of Julios with no insurance. I listened to rap music in a rental car for an extended period before I realized it. I have answered the door to Jehovah’s Witness. In every case, I would have preferred to be water boarded or worse yet, have a conversation with Alfred.
I think the CIA did the responsible thing by keeping them alive.
They are saving lives and that’s what matters!