Posted on 08/25/2009 6:25:36 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Report Shows Tight C.I.A. Control on Interrogations By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — Two 17-watt fluorescent-tube bulbs — no more, no less — illuminated each cell, 24 hours a day. White noise played constantly but was never to exceed 79 decibels. A prisoner could be doused with 41-degree water but for only 20 minutes at a stretch.
The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret interrogation program operated under strict rules, and the rules were dictated from Washington with the painstaking, eye-glazing detail beloved by any bureaucracy.
The first news reports this week about hundreds of pages of newly released documents on the C.I.A. program focused on aberrations in the field: threats of execution by handgun or assault by power drill; a prisoner lifted off the ground by his arms, which were tied behind his back; another detainee repeatedly knocked out with pressure applied to the carotid artery.
But the strong impression that emerges from the documents, many with long passages blacked out for secrecy, is by no means one of gung-ho operatives running wild. It is a portrait of overwhelming control exercised from C.I.A. headquarters and the Department of Justice — control Bush administration officials say was intended to ensure that the program was safe and legal.
Managers, doctors and lawyers not only set the program’s parameters but dictated every facet of a detainee’s daily routine, monitoring interrogations on an hour-by-hour basis. From their Washington offices, they obsessed over the smallest details: the number of calories a prisoner consumed daily (1,500); the number of hours he could be kept in a box (eight hours for the large box, two hours for the small one); the proper time when his enforced nudity should be ended and his clothes returned.
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“the number of calories a prisoner consumed daily (1,500)’
....1500 calories ain’t bad...in the Army violent prisioners in the stockade got 1100 to start....a week of that and they became manageable and got better rations.
I would love for a couple of field agents to pick up Pinky or Binky, or whatever his name is that owns the Slimes, to show him what they do to those who actively undermine the safety of the American people and the brave heros who protect us!
Don’t tell me - this article appeared on about page D 30 - correct? I can’t believe it appeared at all.
Low light, constant noise, crap food, and tortured by alpha males?
Didn’t any of these people attend school in America?
Sounds like we were too easy on them
**Sounds like we were too easy on them**
Then the Real torture began... they were deprived of the flat wooden spoons with their Ice Cream Cups!!
The didn’t complain until they were deprive of their sugar and milk at TEA TIME.
Sounds like that faggot Sulzbergers standard MO while trying to outdo Goebbels in both taking it in the rear and implementing the big lie.
try who is their source............
They should have opened up a can of Jack Bauer on them.
Those little wooden spoons are torture to me! Man I hate those things.
Personally, if they didn't draw and quarter KSM, I think they stopped to soon.
Don’t tell me - this article appeared on about page D 30 - correct? I can’t believe it appeared at all.
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Yeah....definitely BELOW the ‘fold’.
Hmmmm, going after the CIA. Wonder if 0bama’s REAL birth certificate will mysteriously show up any time soon. . . . . . . .
Indeed, that DOES sound amazingly like. . . . high school.
Rush was right... even the Abu Garaib photos.. those guys looked better than the Fraternity Pledges HERE at our 2 colleges.
Given the inevitable witch hunt now underway, would it not have generated better intel to just torture these sob’s?
Hmm sagging poll numbers...I know! 2 weeks before the 09-11 anniversary, let start trashing the people who defend us! Let do what every weak wrist big govt gutter ball bureaucrat in every action movie, and tv show, has done for the last 30 years! Let suck up to the thugs and go after the hero! That will be REAL popular with the independents and moderate voters!
There rooms were kept at 42 degrees. That’s normal to me.
“Those who make war with slavish devotion to the rules are doomed to fail.”
-US Grant
Awww those poor skeered Muslim terrorist. Wait they weren’t so skeered when the slit the throats of the stewardesses....Let’s Roll - America.
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