Republicans modeled their torture techniques after Communist Chinese methods


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Thursday, 23 April 2009

Senate Report Details Torture Policy Origins

by Jason Leopold,


The seeds for the Bush administration's policy of torture were planted
in December 2001, nearly a year before the Justice Department issued
its first legal opinion that authorized CIA interrogators to torture
"war on terror" prisoners, and the creation of the policy involved
senior White House officials, according to a newly declassified report
released late Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

By December 2001, the Department of Defense (DoD)had already begun to
solicit information on "detainee exploitation" from the Joint
Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), a DoD agency that trained the
military to withstand interrogation methods considered illegal under
the Geneva Conventions.

The JPRA oversees a training program known as Survival Evasion
Resistance and Escape (SERE) training.

"As one JPRA instructor explained, SERE training is 'based on illegal
exploitation (under the rules listed in the 1949 Geneva Convention
Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War) of prisoners over the
last 50 years,' the Armed Services Committee report said.

"The techniques used in SERE school, based, in part, on Chinese
Communist techniques used during the Korean war to elicit false
confessions, include stripping students of their clothing, placing
them in stress positions, putting hoods over their heads, disrupting
their sleep, treating them like animals, subjecting them to loud music
and flashing lights, and exposing them to extreme temperatures. It can
also include face and body slaps and until recently, for some who
attended the Navy's SERE school, it included waterboarding."

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How 'bout that.

Harry
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