CIA fought hard to keep sleep deprivation as part of their "interrogation" program

[spooked911]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/report_cia_fought_for_sleep_deprivation.php
The Los Angeles Times reports that sleep deprivation was "one of the most important elements in the CIA's interrogation program, used to help break dozens of suspected terrorists, far more than the most violent approaches." It was also "among the methods the agency fought hardest to keep."

Sleep deprivation is not an effective way to get information-- it's a way to mentally break down a person. Severe sleep information induces psychosis-- including hallucinations.

http://thegooddemocrat.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/sleep-deprivation-is-torture/

It should be clear that THE CIA HAD NO INTEREST IN THE TRUTH FROM THEIR CAPTIVES.

[JackRiddler]

1. Now here's a point we can agree on!

Since the "183" came out as the number of times "Khalid Sheikh Mohamed" was waterboarded, to say nothing of all the other torture they now finally admit in the case of this prisoner (after lying about it so many different ways), I've wondered what anyone would be like after 183 sessions, especially given all the other techniques also employed, like sleep deprivation. How much would be enough to break someone to the point where they're not sure who they are, or genuinely believe and remember things that never happened? "KSM" confessed to an over-long list of crimes that was over the top even in the view of the corporate media (especially because of the claim he beheaded Daniel Pearl). On top of that, all that has ever been seen or released from these prisoners is what their captors allow (or produce).

[spooked911]

2. well-- I agree-- and it should be obvious that this totally undercuts the official 9/11 story

but some here seem to want to live in denial ... or something else.

[LARED]

3. Mind if I ask a question?

You state the CIA had no interest in the getting the truth from their captives. If you believe this you, must believe they did it for reasons other than preventing further attacks.

Rather than me guess at what you believe motivated the CIA, can you tell me why you think this was done?