Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram

[Robb]

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/05/inside-the-secret-interrogation-facility-at-bagram/56678/">Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram

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It has been previously reported that the facility, beige on the outside with a green gate, was operated by members of a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) group, allegedly outside of Hayward's jurisdiction. But JSOC, a component command made up of highly secret special mission units and task forces, does not operate the facility.

Instead, it is manned by intelligence operatives and interrogators who work for the DIA's Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC). They perform interrogations for a sub-unit of Task Force 714, an elite counter-terrorism brigade.

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According to other officials, personnel at the facility are supposed to follow the Army Field Manual's guidelines for interrogations. When he took office, President Obama signed an executive order banning the Central Intelligence Agency and the military from using techniques not listed in the manual. But he has a task force studying whether the expressly manual-approved tactics are sufficient.

However, under secret authorization, the DIA interrogators use methods detailed in an appendix to the Field Manual, Appendix M, which spells out "restricted" interrogation techniques.

Under certain circumstances, interrogators can deprive prisoners of sleep (four hours at a time, for up to 30 days), to confuse their senses, and to keep them separate from the rest of the prison population. The Red Cross is now notified if the captives are kept at the facility for longer than two weeks.....

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/05/inside-the-secret-interrogation-facility-at-bagram/56678/

[Robb]

1. Kick. nt

[Zix]

2. Oh, well, if it's in a TRAINING MANUAL

I guess it's okay.