TORTURE: & U.S. POLICY: House Judiciary Hearing 11.08.07

[Soulrazr]

Also stress positions. And a technique called "frequent flyer" where the detainee is moved from cell to cell in an effort to disorient him and break his will.

[suskky]

shame...shame...are you peolpe for real? CIA has teached it methods of torture to half of the world

[milofonbil]

Cheney needs to be impeached for ordering torture.

[milofonbil]

Why do we, a Democracy, have secret prisons? In abu-ghraib torture was outsourced to mercenary contractors like CACI. Also torture has been outsourced to foreign countries according to innocent survivors of torture like Khaled el-Masri.

[milofonbil]

All but one of these 11 high-value al Qaeda prisoners were subjected to the harshest interrogation techniques in the CIA's secret arsenal, the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" authorized for use by about 14 CIA officers and first reported by ABC News on Nov. 18.

[milofonbil]

We know the fate of just a small fraction of the thousands of prisoners captured by U.S. forces around the world since 9/11. Inside its own "black site" prisons, the CIA uses interrogation methods that -- while falling short of the medieval techniques used in the Arab world -- still, in the eyes of many within the agency, amount to straightforward torture. It is not only water-boarding, but also refined techniques of sensory deprivation, that can cripple a prisoner psychologically.