Posted on 04/16/2009 10:34:55 PM PDT by pissant
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. The Bybee memorandum, which was written on August 1, 2002, described the CIA's plans for using insects this way:
"You [the CIA] would like to place Zubaydah in a cramped confinement box with an insect. You have informed us [the Department of Justice] that he appears to have a fear of insects. In particular, you would like to tell Zubaydah that you intend to place a stinging insect into the box with him. You would, however, place a harmless insect in the box. You have orally informed us that you would in fact place a harmless insect such as a catapiller in the box with him."
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
caterpillars are scary.
NOTE TO SELF: If bitten by Camel Spider, have bite wound treated.
Jeff Goldblum as “The Fly” was also scary!
Pretty active fantasy life there tet68!
Your idea could forever ruin Saturday nights in the SF Castro district.
Dumped into the press by Obama's people, and parroted by the MSM whores.
I hope they put him in the box with a Tarantula.
And a snake and a rat would be good too.
It’s doubtless to shove both the DHS memo and Tea Parties out of the news cycle.
LoL this reminds me of that reality show where contestants would have to lay in a box full of huge roaches for a certain period of time..the team that had the most minutes won—I think that was the goal. Can’t remember the name...
Please tell me that spider is PHOTOSHOPPED!!!!
You mean before this memo there were NO insects in Guantanamo Bay?
It’s not photoshopped. However, the angle of the photo is deceiving. Camel spiders are nasty little spuds, but the guy standing in the background is several yards back, giving the appearance that the spider is a couple of feet long. Look at the cuff in the upper part of the photo and it will give a better indication of the actual size of the spider.
right ;^)
“Trust me, 50 cochroaches in a dark confined box would drive anybody insane.”
Sounds like everyones bedroom in Manila.
Wouldn’t drive me insane, I grew up under those conditions.
I tried to see the cuff, and yet still couldn’t comprehend the actual size so I googled it. I HATE spiders so bad—
The gist of what I read is they prey upon termites, bugs etc.
They remind me of chiggers—which also insert a venom type of stuff that liquifies the flesh so it can be sucked up.
I have to go to my happy place now. :-)
If one of those things got in your boot he would take a walk in the desert
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