Can you say WAR CRIMES, readers?
"Interrogation method used after ban, documents show; Detainees were moved repeatedly to soften them" by Josh White, Washington Post | August 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - At least 17 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay were subjected to a program that moved them repeatedly from cell to cell to cause sleep deprivation and disorientation as punishment and to soften detainees for subsequent interrogation, according to US military documents.
Defense Department investigations of abuse had previously revealed that the program was used in a limited manner and only on high-value detainees, but the documents indicate that the program was far more widespread and that the technique was still used months after it was banned at the facility in March 2004. Detainees were moved dozens of times in just days and sometimes more than a hundred times over a two-week period.
Do you get sick of the lying like me?
Military police logs for cell blocks at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, show that guards used the program - dubbed the "frequent flyer" program in official documents - on numerous detainees and noted the program in their 2003 and 2004 records. The logs, reviewed by The
