The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
I don't really know what to say except: Gore for VP!!
Incidentally, that is an excerpt from perhaps the best speech I've ever seen Gore give. Here is a video of the full speech (unfortunately, I can only find it in RealPlayer format). Note also that that speech was given May 26, 2004. Gore was ridiculed at the time for being overly critical of the Bush administration.
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