Military Agency Warned Bush Admin in 2002 That its Interrogation Program Was 'Torture'

Posted by Faiz Shakir, Think Progress at 4:34 PM on April 24, 2009.

The Joint Personnel Recovery Agency Warned that the interrogation program would produce "unreliable information."

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In a July 2002 document uncovered by the Washington Post, the military's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency warned that the Bush administration’s interrogation program was “torture” and that it would produce “unreliable information.” JPRA is the military agency that ran the program known as Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE), “which trains pilots and others to resist hostile questioning.” JPRA warned in the 2002 document:

The unintended consequence of a U.S. policy that provides for the torture of prisoners is that it could be used by our adversaries as justification for the torture of captured U.S. personnel.

Tagged as: bush, torture, sere, bush admin

Faiz Shakir is the Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Editor of ThinkProgress.org and The Progress Report.

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