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arcticredriver commented on the diary post Torture & the Art of the Gratuitous Lie: Dissecting Rumsfeld & Thiessen’s Wild Whoppers by Jeff Kaye.
Triggering hatred of the USA may not be the most serious danger arising from the use of extreme interrogation. The use of extreme interrogation also posed a danger because it coerced a Niagara of false confessions and false denunciations. Under Bush, and, for all we know, under Obama, the US establishment has taken these coerced [...]
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arcticredriver commented on the diary post Torture & the Art of the Gratuitous Lie: Dissecting Rumsfeld & Thiessen’s Wild Whoppers by Jeff Kaye.
A Brit, Christopher Hitchens if I am not mistaken, did arrange to have some of the original SERE trainers waterboard him. One way his waterboarding differed from that of the CIA captives, in that it would stop as soon as he signalled he couldn’t stand it any longer. If I recall correctly he was able [...]
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arcticredriver commented on the diary post Guantanamo Medical Chief Was “Advised Not to Talk About” Drug Decision by Jeff Kaye.
What would the Guantanamo medical records reveal, if they were made public? You may have reported on this. Mahmoud Habib, the other Australian captive who was held in Guantanamo, was given (some?) of his medical records, when he was repatriated. The records he was given were sufficient for torture experts to state that the records [...]
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arcticredriver commented on the diary post Unreported Detainee Deaths at Guantanamo in Jan-Feb 2002? by Jeff Kaye.
I’ve been reading Karen Greenberg’s book “The Least Worst Place”. I recently read a section where she quoted someone (Chief medical officer Shimkus?) who had told someone (camp commandant Lehnert?) that many of the captives had life threatening wounds — which made me doubt again that there had only been 6 deaths in custody. It [...]
