July 2, 2008


Communist inspired interrogation techniques

Turns out the “interrogation techniques” we’ve been using at Guantánamo were lifted verbatim from a 1957 study of techniques used during the Korean war to obtain — mostly false — confessions from American prisoners.

The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.

posted by Deron Bauman in crime, government, history 

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3 Responses to “Communist inspired interrogation techniques”

  1. Mike D. on July 2nd, 2008 at 9:07 am

    But it works so well on 24…!

  2. Sheila Ryan on July 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 am

    And in The Manchurian Candidate.

  3. Mike D. on July 2nd, 2008 at 11:22 am

    The 24 effect is old news at this point, but I still feel sickened every time I pass that show on the dial. Not so much at its depictions of cruelty, but at its horrible propaganda potential.

    The ultimate result of the 24 effect, therefore, will likely be a shifting of the baseline for permissible treatment of criminal defendants; because psychological coercion, trickery, false promises and threats have a lesser visceral impact than the physical torture to which we are all becoming accustomed, courts as well as the public at large are likely to become more accepting of these techniques.

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