"Pentagon Interrogation Guidelines Eyed in Prison Scandal"
A look into techniques approved for interrogations at Guantanamo Bay. I suppose this is what was meant when I'd in the past heard about a policy of 'torture lite.'
Excerpt:
In April 2003, the Defense Department approved a list of interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permits making a detainee disrobe entirely for questioning, reversing normal sleep patterns and exposing them to heat, cold and 'sensory assault,' including loud music and bright lights, according to defense officials. ...
Defense and intelligence officials said similar guidelines have been approved for use on so-called "high-value detainees" in Iraq, those suspected of terrorism or of having knowledge of insurgency operations, and for prisoners detained in CIA-run detention centers. ...
Some prisoners could be made to stand for four hours at a time. Questioning a prisoner without clothes was permitted if he were alone in his cell. Ruled out were such techniques as physical contact....
Excerpt:
In April 2003, the Defense Department approved a list of interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison that permits making a detainee disrobe entirely for questioning, reversing normal sleep patterns and exposing them to heat, cold and 'sensory assault,' including loud music and bright lights, according to defense officials. ...
Defense and intelligence officials said similar guidelines have been approved for use on so-called "high-value detainees" in Iraq, those suspected of terrorism or of having knowledge of insurgency operations, and for prisoners detained in CIA-run detention centers. ...
Some prisoners could be made to stand for four hours at a time. Questioning a prisoner without clothes was permitted if he were alone in his cell. Ruled out were such techniques as physical contact....
// 5/08/2004 
