Jessen’s notes, prepared for an Air Force survival training course that he later “reverse engineered” when he helped design the Bush administration’s torture program, however, go into far greater detail than the Armed Services Committee’s report in explaining how prisoners would be broken down physically and psychologically by their captors
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Jessen’s notes were provided to Truthout by retired Air Force Capt. Michael Kearns, a “master” SERE instructor and decorated veteran who has previously held high-ranking positions within the Air Force Headquarters Staff and Department of Defense
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Yet it was not torture when we impose the same actions on others. Some said it was wrong when the Republican administration sanctioned it. Now some say we’re good.
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p>The people that sanctioned torture, used torture aren’t stupid. They know the torture doesn’t get the information they want.
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p>The idea is to keep everyone in line. How many will attend a peaceful protest if they suspect they or their loved ones will pay the price of torture?
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p>Fail to line up when told?
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p>We’ve become a country of torture and threat.
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p>Hardly a day goes by without a TSA story of a “little torture” of the elderly, children or handicapped in full view of the other passengers. Keeps everyone in line, doesn’t it? Police, customs, immigration and the other alphabet soup agencies of government join the march. Anyone remember Bradley Manning
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p>”…does that star-spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”
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p>“Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.” –Yousef Munayyer
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