chinese torture in guantanamo

Okay, it's been like two months. But that's summer. Couldn't pass this up, however, for magnitude of sickness (and, at this point, obviousness).

NYT: China Inspired Interrogations at Guantanamo

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.

So it's basically Manchurian Candidate meets Darkness at Noon. Wonderful.