Sunday's Doonesbury- Torture Tips

[n2doc]

[malthaussen]

1. Except I don't believe it.

Oh, that we spent $81 mil on consultants, that's a matter of record. But the CIA taught torture and terror methods all over cental and south America. It strains credulity to claim they "didn't have any real torture experience" before 9/11.

-- Mal

[rurallib]

2. Maybe they used 'rent-a-torture'

I think it used to be listed in the phone book

[Scarsdale]

4. What?

Did Halliburton decide the paycheck was too measly? Maybe Dick and daughter Lizzie were too late putting in their bid for the job, Want to bet Cheney has ALL the tapes?

[daleanime]

3. Well, there's a difference between hiring someone....

and getting your own hands dirty.

[another_liberal]

5. That's the Bush administration all over . . .

It was their SOP to do things like spend eighty-one million on something they already had.

Hell, they knew they were just going to leave the bills for some Democrat to eventually pay.

[stopwastingmymoney]

7. This...nt

[Gothmog]

6. Another great Doonesbury strip

[jakeXT]

8. They had experience, see the School of the Americas manuals for example

U.S. Instructed Latins on Executions, Torture PDF Print E-mail
By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer

U.S. Army intelligence manuals used to train Latin American military officers at an Army school from 1982 to 1991 advocated executions, torture, blackmail and other forms of coercion against insurgents, Pentagon documents released yesterday show.

Used in courses at the U.S. Army?s School of the Americas, the manual says that to recruit and control informants, counterintelligence agents could use ?fear, payment of bounties for enemy dead, beatings, false imprisonment, executions and the use of truth serum,? according to a secret Defense Department summary of the manuals compiled during a 1992 investigation of the instructional material and also released yesterday.

A summary of the investigation and four pages of brief, translated excerpts from the seven Spanish-language manuals were released last night by the Defense Department, which recently has taken to making controversial information available in the evenings, after the deadlines of the prime-time network television news programs.

The Army School of the Americas, long located in Panama by moved in 1984 to Fort Benning, Ga., has trained nearly 60,000 military and police officers from Latin America and the United States since 1946.

http://soaw.org/component/content/article/57/2500-us-instructed-latins-on-executions-torture



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals

[Electric Monk]

9. k&r