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Bush Approved Use of Insects in al-Qaeda Interrogations
TIME ^
| 4/16/09
| MICHAEL SCHERER
Posted on 04/16/2009 6:16:59 PM PDT by frankjr
The Bush Administration approved the use of "insects placed in a confinement box" during the interrogation of top Al Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2002 document that President Obama declassified for release Thursday.
The legal memorandum for the CIA, prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, reviewed 10 enhanced techniques for interrogating Zubaydah, and determined that none of them constituted torture under U.S. criminal law. The techniques were: attention grasp, walling (hitting a detainee against a flexible wall), facial hold, facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box, and waterboarding.(View pictures of life inside Guantanamo.)
The CIA desire to use insects during interrogations has not previously been disclosed, according to two civil liberties experts contacted by TIME.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bush; gitmo; gwot; insects; interrogation; terror; zubaydah
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Eeeek!!! A daddy longlegs!!!!!
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:17:00 PM PDT
by
frankjr
To: frankjr
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:18:27 PM PDT
by
50mm
(My respect for zero has reached zero)
To: frankjr
Thank you President Bush for keeping us safe after 9/11.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:18:46 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: frankjr
Yes, but did we get any useful intelligence out of the guy? That’s the question that matters.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:19:11 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
("I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.")
To: frankjr
?Bush Approved Use of Insects in al-Qaeda InterrogationsCall PETI.
To: 50mm
Thats a long legged mack daddy!
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:19:37 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: frankjr
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:19:45 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
To: frankjr
Wow thats very Humane no chopping off heads
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:19:45 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: frankjr
I’d rather be waterboarded than have a d@mn spider on me. *shudders*
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:19:53 PM PDT
by
AirForceMom
(Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
To: frankjr
They should have brought in some large friendly dogs. Muslims hate dogs. Who could call being licked by a dog torture?
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:20:21 PM PDT
by
GatorGirl
(Proud Citizen of the Gator Nation)
To: frankjr
we should have been using Jack Bauer tactics not this candy ass bug and fake drowning hokum.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:20:21 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: frankjr
Lovely - now the Communist-in-chief is going to cherry-pick documents to declassify to undermine the forces of Light.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:20:33 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: frankjr
If they had used the Insects from Starship Troopers, I would be impressed.
Mohammed, meet my little friend....
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:20:57 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(If Hitler used a TelePrompter, we would all be speaking German...)
To: 50mm
That pic needs a pile in front of it ;)
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:21:08 PM PDT
by
AirForceMom
(Locked and loaded, and sharpening wooden stakes.)
To: frankjr
Thank you President Bush.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:21:24 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(I'm a PROUD RIGHT WING EXTREMIST.... Obama has failed, IMPEACH Obama NOW....)
To: frankjr
Charge the producers of Fear Factor! with war crimes. It only stands to reason.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:21:36 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: frankjr
An insect in a box wouldn’t even rate as a “Fear Factor” event.
To: Vaquero
I dunno, centipedes and big spiders really freak me out.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:21:58 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(boycott government run entities)
To: frankjr
County jails have used the technique for a hundred years. Only difference is they have nothing to ask you.
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posted on
04/16/2009 6:22:31 PM PDT
by
eyedigress
( Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place.)
To: 50mm
A fly would be the natural choice because the are attracted to sh*t.
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