Posted on 05/10/2009 3:23:17 PM PDT by lewisglad
More than 25 of the CIA's war-on-terror prisoners were subjected to sleep deprivation for as long as 11 days at a time during the administration of former president George Bush.
At one stage during the war on terror, the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to keep prisoners awake for as long as 11 days, citing memoranda made public by the Justice department last month.
The limit was later reduced to just over a week, the report stated.
Sleep deprivation was one of the most important elements in the CIA's interrogation programme, seen as more effective than more violent techniques used to help break the will of suspects.
Within the CIA it was seen as having the advantage of eroding a prisoner's will without leaving lasting damage.
When detainees could no longer stand, they could be laid on the prison floor with their limbs "anchored to a far point on the floor in such a manner that the arms cannot be bent or used for balance or comfort," a memo dated May 10, 2005, said.
"The position is sufficiently uncomfortable to detainees to deprive them of unbroken sleep, while allowing their lower limbs to recover from the effects of standing," it said
I was kept sitting on a chair, shackled by hands and feet for two to weeks," said suspected Al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner captured by the CIA, according to the Red Cross report. "If I started to fall asleep, a guard would come and spray water in my face."
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>> the bad guy’s did get a nap after chirping. Right?
I hope not. I would’ve kept them up another week after singing... just out of pure meanness.
I agree. Keeping them awake for days was cruel and unusual.
From now on we should just drop them from the top of Sears Tower. That will take only a few seconds, hardly torture.
If they didn’t set a record in the Guiness book or something, it isn’t worth hearing about.
Now, interrogators aren’t even allowed to insult them. The libtards who want to close GITMO and release the terrorists should answer the critical question: Which city are you willing to sacrifice to a terror attack in the name of “change?” It IS going to happen; the only question is when.
I say gas them all.
Pikers. (Actually, I was thinking of a different “p” word. Any mom who nursed a baby would laugh at this as torture and then say, “is that all you got?!”
Physically impossible.
The CIA guys wanted to make sure they were being tough enough to satisfy Nancy Pelosi.
For those who are upset about this: I have a teething 7 month old. I can do 11 days, standing up, while holding a 17 pound screaming child.
When someone decides to kill innocent people in the name of religion I dont think they should have to suffer any discomfort whatever
Oh, and as far as getting water sprayed in their faces, I have been peed on more times than I can count. Also, sometimes it’s just easier to catch the spit-up in my hand than let my son puke on himself. Then I only have to wash my hand and not change him and wash the outfit. These terrorists and their lib apologists are pu$$ies.
Did anyone hear Newt say Eric Holder’s law office is defending 17 Gitmo terrorists pro bono? Anyone?
Many years ago, I paid a term's worth of residence hall fees for a room like that.
Mr. niteowl77
They can always move the bar, can’t they? Ten or 20 years after waterboarding, sleep deprivation and panties-on-head are outlawed, in order to keep up the fairy tale that America tortures prisoners, they’ll have to move the bar and declare that withholding coffee and depriving prisoners of genuine goose down pillows are outrageous forms of torture. And the world will swallow it hook, line and sinker.
I’m just going to post this link:
It’s at wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)
Dude went eleven days without sleep- voluntarily.
I might have to think about breaking that one myself.
Also, I would simply note that there are a lot of things that some humans seem capable of doing that ordinary experience and/or doctors tell us is not possible.
A guy held his breath in a tank of water a few weeks ago at the Bahrain Grand Prix. It wasn’t an illusion or a David Blaine type trick. Guy could just slow his heart beat down voluntarily and hold his breath that long.
I would reckon that there are quite a few people out there who could go eleven days or more without sleep without too much difficulty and all manner of other weird things.
We ought never take another al-Qaeda prisoner alive. It is a tragic state of affairs when a freedom-loving nation cannot suffer prisoners of war, lest our own domestic enemies make use of them.
I never knew they had newborn babies at Gitmo.
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