Jane Mayer: SERE Program's 'Curriculum for Torture'

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/01/The_Dark_Side_Jane_Mayer

Jane Mayer, staff writer for The New Yorker, recalls uncovering the role of the military's secret Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program in building a "curriculum for torture."

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Jane Mayer takes a closer look at the ways she says Bush administration policies chipped away our nation's core principles, and addresses whether the Obama administration is on the same path or undoing the damage. She addresses constitutional gray areas -- torture, wire-tapping, presidential power and Guantanamo detainees. - Commonwealth Club of California

Jane Mayer joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in March, 1995. Based in Washington, D.C., she writes about politics for the magazine, and has been covering the war on terror. Recent subjects include Alberto Mora and the Pentagons secret torture policy, how the United States outsources torture (rendition), the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and the legality of C.I.A. interrogations. She has also written about George W. Bush, the bin Laden family, Sarah Palin, and the television show "24."

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[theblakehammock]

Really a secret? Then why is it on the Air Force website, and why am i leaving for it in December?

[N0VAD0GG]

She is blind and thinks she now sees because she "Googled" SERE

[princeofhosts]

SERE training is mostly about surviving the unknown. This woman has never stepped into the building and has no idea what thousands of Airmen learn each year. SERE is part of the USAF and is used to train airborne servicemen and pilots.

[robhop2]

Jane Mayer, educated in American History at Oxford, states that she relies on Google for her facts. Interesting. Research methodology taught at US universities insist upon empirical evidence from documented sources. Sorry Jane, these are not considered facts. I'm sure that your Oxford Professors would agree.

[toliverfive]

Hey Jane, the rendition program is alive and well today.

This woman never heard of SERE? Secret? What?

[marcomauas]

This is cognitive ideology. SERE is a cognitive based approach. Does it help? The same as any form of forced propaganda, brainwash. Big Brother ideology at its best. Somebody "hates" this video? No way. Begs the question. SERE , the survival program, doesn't survive examination and some simple questions, basic questions on human nature.

[ad6504]

This is hilarious, seriously SERE has been around since Vietnam. BTW also if you got it off of google then either it's not classified or you got faulty information.

[nsemione12]

If you hate liberals dislike this video, if you believe she has no idea what soldiers need to do dislike this video. I hope none of the members who are trained at sere ever have to use it but they do and it does help. also its so secret I searched for it on google

[nsemione12]

If you hate liberals dislike this video, if you believe she has no idea what soldiers need to do dislike this video. I hope none of the members who are trained at sere ever have to use it but they do and it does help.

[JBak1100]

hahahah. "I studied american history at yale and oxford" and therefore what? she is clearly still an ignoramus. if SERE was a secret program then why have I known about it for years? it is voluntary and its purpose is not to make sure that they can stand torture but to teach them about what they may have to endure. she is clearly high when this video was made