Posted on 04/22/2009 4:40:32 AM PDT by kellynla
Although President Obama has prohibited the use of waterboarding in interrogating captured al Qaeda terrorists, the Defense Department will not say whether it has stopped using waterboarding in its training of certain U.S. military personnel, as was discussed in a 2002 government memo made public last week.
One of the previously classified Justice Department memos detailing CIA interrogation techniques that was released by Obama last week revealed that waterboarding was routinely used in the training some U.S. military personnel.
The waterboarding took place in the SERE program, an acronym for “Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape.” The formerly classified memos were prepared by the Justicie Department to advise the CIA on the legality of "enhanced techniques" of interrogation that included waterboarding.
An August 2002 memo on CIA interrogation tactics used on some captured al Qaeda terrorists said the “same techniques" continued to be used on some U.S. military personnel during SERE training.
Those “same techniques” included waterboarding, according to the memo. The memo further stated that waterboarding had a “near 100 percent” effectiveness rate in extracting information from trainees, while no soldiers were harmed physically or psychologically by it.
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Perhaps the names of his globalist, communist masters?
But Obama believes in Waterboarding us Americans after taking a crap on our faces.
2012 can’t be here soon enough to throw this narcissistic leftist out of office.
Here’s an idea. Release all the information we extracted from the scum of the earth and what their intentions were. Maybe then a few more eyes will open up.
Why is this even an issue? SERE is voluntary and helps our troops resist torture. How are you going to teach them how to resist cracking under it if they don’t actually experience it?
Who here would like to see water boarding used just one more time.....on Barry and Joe?
Think of the things we could learn.
Not where I came from.
Perhaps, instead, the Pentagon could enforce sprinkle planking
Been there, done that. (Maine, March 1980)
You volunteer for the military then voluntarily choose a job that requires SERE.
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