Chinese Water Torture, American Style

It never stops. Really, it doesn't. And frankly, anything positive, uplifting, etc. (If any of it truly exists. You may rest assured that nature won't be around much longer.) is rendered meaningless by stuff like this. Essentially, the national security apparatus of the gov't. has become the enemy. No, they aren't worshiping Mahomet or Allah, the Satanic Moon Gawd yet, but they've certainly become our former opponents, now our partners in labor exploitation, the Chicoms. Per the New York Times, our brave boys (any girls involved beyond Lynndie England?) in unmarked uniforms &/or civilian clothes at one time didn't even know how to torture or coerce Moooslim turrists. They had to look it up.

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.

What? False confessions? No, no. Torture works! It's necessary!! They're dirty Moooslims who wear their diapers on their heads! They're built upside down!!

The 1957 article from which the chart was copied was entitled “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War” and written by Albert D. Biderman, a sociologist then working for the Air Force, who died in 2003. Mr. Biderman had interviewed American prisoners returning from North Korea, some of whom had been filmed by their Chinese interrogators confessing to germ warfare and other atrocities. [...] The only change made in the chart presented at Guantánamo was to drop its original title: “Communist Coercive Methods for Eliciting Individual Compliance.”

Love that bureaucratic Newspeak.