DAILY DIALECTIC
September 01, 2009
"All of these practices are carefully engineered to facilitate the interrogation process. Nudity, sleep deprivation and dietary manipulation are used as standard preparatory steps... 'Coercive techniques' used include: walling (slamming a prisoner's head against the wall...), water dousing, the use of the stress position... Because of substantial redactions, it seems unlikely that this list is complete. ... But this is an historical document, right? President Barack Obama shut down the black sites and the extraordinary renditions program immediately after taking office, right? Well, not entirely..."
 
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