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Can you provide a citation to your assertion that only 3 prisoners were tortured? As a followup, I’m curious about where you usually get your sources of information, if you don’t mind telling me. Nothing that I’m seeing in print, online, or television media lines up with your views about the number of people tortured, or the effficacy of torture, and I’d like to know how you come by your ideas.
I believe that reports by the Red Cross, the Pentagon, and a Congressional committee indicate that torture was employed systematically across military prisons and secret prisons. Also, that this torture was approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration. Just yesterday, documents were produced that Cheney and Condi approved torture. “Pretty small program”?
I’ve got to run now, but here is a quick cite to the Red Cross reference.
The Red Cross report says that torture, including waterboarding, was practiced systematically in our secret prisons.
“It discusses elements of the CIA rendition and detention program, in which prisoners were transported – shackled and blindfolded – to secret “black sites” where they faced interrogation using what President Bush, in a September 6, 2006 speech publicly revealing the program, termed “an alternative set of procedures.”
These techniques, the Red Cross states, included suffocation by water, beatings, confinement in a box, sleep deprivation, forced nudity, exposure to cold temperatures or cold water, starvation and prolonged stress positions.
