The Gitmo Experiment: How Methods Developed
by the U.S. Military For Withstanding Torture are
Being Used Against Detainees at Guantanamo Bay

Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviews Jane Mayer of the New Yorker about her article:

The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they will inoculate themselves. It would be like practicing going off a high dive. So under very, very carefully monitored circumstances, soldiers in danger of being taken captive are put through this classified program in which they -- they're hooded, they’re bound, they're deprived of sleep, they’re exposed to extremes of temperature, they’re held in tiny little cells, they are starved to some extent. They are sometimes water-boarded which is a form of torture in which you're bound to a board and they pour water on your face so that you can’t breathe; you have the sense that you’re going to die of asphyxiation.

And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them. They throw them on the ground, they rip them in the air. Many of the soldiers are quite religious, and it is very upsetting to see this happen to them. And, you know, for the people that I talked to who knew the program well, when we began reading about Korans being trashed, a number of people said, ‘Oh, my god,’ you know, they just wondered – they thought, ‘God, there is a, you know, connection between these things.’ And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo.

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This speaks for itself: they really did flush a Koran down the toilet at Guantanamo, which is the least of the atrocities committed by US military personnel there. I don't know what angers me more, the torture or the White House lies about it.

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