CIA Was Authorized to Keep Prisoners Awake for 11 Days

Despite all these harsh interrogation methods the best the CIA and the Pentagon could "produce" were 3 or 4 convictions? This sounds like the "success" ratio the US has had in Afghanistan where after bombing to smithereens 750 innocent civilians, the US could only manage killing 14 "suspected" Al-Qaeda members.

The US has finally joined the ranks of North Korea, China and Russia on torture and mayhem. Congrats!

Reports are now coming in indicating the US is using White Phosphorus in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Ask journalist Daniel Pearle if he would prefer to be kept awake for days on end instead of the fate his captors gave him.

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Alot of files were handed over during the past 2 weeks or so. Everything is signed and approved by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Yoo. According to the program I watched on PBS the administration was updated daily on what was going on the the world of "We don't torture". Except that we do and it's damned ugly. Anna

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Even now so many Americans, as they recall that fateful day when we were attacked, feel that almost anything was acceptable if it would bring us more information about those who attacked us on 9/11 and ensure no more attacks would coming. And that is why any prosecutions against Bush/Cheyney will lead no where.

We are all going in the wrong direction. Exposing the sins of torture does make Bush and Cheyney look more like monsters, but only to those who already see them as such.
But exposing the greater crime, the crime of covering up 9/11 and actually being complicit in 9/11, would actually bring in virtually all Americans and ensure that this popular opinion would finally bring justice to these hideous leaders.

But it takes the media to bring the information that PROVES that 9/11 was an inside job. PROOF!
And we have it. How could any journalist ever ignore this, the biggest story of all time.
We have known that the WTC collapse was brought on with controlled demolition. There are so many bits of evidence that make any other explanation highly implausible.
But for every bit of evidence, the defenders of the official story would present some improbable explanation.
This time, though, we have a scientific paper in a peer reviewed physics journal by Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan and other distinguished scientists that proves that thermite was present in large quantities in the dust samples taken from the WTC area right after the collapse. And this thermite, and explosive substance used in controlled demolition, is a special type called nanothermite, which was not commercially available and only experimental, with each research facility making different types, each with its own signature composition. It would not be hard to find out where it was made and who made it and how it ended up at the WTC.

And we could find out all of that if only our media, like Alternet, would expose what we do know and expose the scientific work proving the WTC collapsed due to controlled demolition. And neither will Amy Goodman or antiwar.com or Counterpunch or the Nation or any other progressive sites.
The continuing wars and occupations and human rights crimes can be blamed on our press, and particularly our alternative media, because exposing the lies of 9/11 would put a quick end to all of these horrors.

Why won't they expose any of it?

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Even minor emotional stress can harm the human body, possibly seriously, to say nothing of being forced to endure stress positions for *11 days* without any sleep.

I am surprised that fewer than 100 detainees died in US custody. It seems likely that the death-toll will rise greatly over the next few years as former prisoners die from heart-disease, suicides, cancers, etc as a direct result of their captivity and treatment.

And what kind of "intelligence" is given by a man who hasn't slept in over a week!? It can't exactly be reliable. And the fact that wars were waged based on this unreliable information is really one of the greatest evils in all of human history.

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.. and a bunch of other stuff you'll be a enlisted US Marine! Mix in sometime at NAS Brunswick Maine and you'll get some air wings!

Semper Fi

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As long as renditions continue the use of torture in our name has not stopped.


FREE AMERICA

VOCA, NOW !!

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Sleep deprivation? How did they stand it?
Don't forget they also endured a "bland, yet nutritious diet".
Unlike the rich, varied diet they were used to.
Don't forget about the caterpillar in the box.
Yuck! That had to be terrible.
Don't forget about the loud noise that came from behind them.

Sheesh!! This was torture? Sober up.

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No sleep...wow.. torture for sure..*L*

The problem here is it gives them more time to plan terrorists attacks!

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