[CitizensTruth] Jane Mayer and Robert F Kennedy Jr on Air America's "Ring of Fire"

[Jay Becker]

Torture Techniques at Guantánamo: “Communist Inspired” ...or Developed, Refined, and Exported by the USA?
	  Part 1: Mad Scientists and Criminal Laboratories
	

	  
	  by Li Onesto
 

        
        A July 2 New York Times
article titled, “China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo,” reported
that in December 2002 military trainers at Guantánamo Bay based an
entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive
management techniques.” These techniques included “sleep deprivation,”
“prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” According to the article, the
“chart was copied from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist
techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of
them false, from American prisoners.”

              The 1957
article says these alleged methods are the same ones that “inquisitors
had employed for centuries” and were nothing that “was not common
practice to police and intelligence interrogators of other times and
nations.” But then it goes on to say that the chart is evidence that
“Communist interrogation methods” are the basis for the kind of torture
currently being done today by the U.S. military and the CIA.

              Albert
D. Biderman, a sociologist working for the Air Force, wrote an article
entitled, “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions from Air
Force Prisoners of War.” Biderman interviewed U.S. soldiers who had
been captured in the Korean War. Some of these GIs had been filmed by
their captors, confessing to the use of germ warfare and other
atrocities by the U.S.

              Did the U.S. carry out atrocities in the Korean War?
              Yes.
In fact, recently declassified U.S. documents and photographs reveal
that U.S. Army officers were aware of and in some instances supervised mass
executions—of as many as 200,000 people. U.S. soldiers carried out
indiscriminate massacres of civilians, including many women and
children. The U.S. dropped bombs, including napalm, on villages. (See
“Little Known Truth about the Korean War: Nightmare of Massacres by
U.S. and South Korean Troops,” Revolution #136, July 20,
2008.) And there is credible evidence that the U.S. was experimenting
with germ warfare in limited covert actions during the Korean War. (See
The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Koreaby Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, Indiana University Press, 1999.)

              But
when captured U.S. soldiers confessed to such crimes, the question
asked by the U.S. government wasn’t: was this actually true or not.
These “confessions” were just declared “false” and then the question
became: how were these American prisoners “brainwashed” to say such
things? And on the basis of this, the U.S. military set out to find a
way to “inoculate” U.S. soldiers against making such “false
confessions.”
http://revcom.us/a/137/torture_part_1-en.html

    Declare It Now! Wear Orange!
Impeach Bush & Cheney for War Crimes
& Crimes against Humanity!


--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Edward Rynearson <edward_rynearson at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Edward Rynearson <edward_rynearson at yahoo.com>
Subject: [CitizensTruth] Jane Mayer and Robert F Kennedy Jr on Air America's "Ring of Fire"
To: citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 4:34 PM


July 26, 2008
Investigative journalist Jane Mayer of the New Yorker Magazine joins Robert F Kenney Jr and talks about how the "war on terror" perverted American ideals by borrowing Chinese torture methods to obtain fake confessions.
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