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The CIA viewed certain techniques as "conditioning" measures, designed to get detainees used to their helplessness rather than yielding any intelligence value on their own.
The Army Field Manual does allow use of the method that interrogation experts say works best: questioning based on expertise of interrogators in using noncoercive, rapport-based techniques to get detainees to talk.
The lawyers argue that military intelligence personnel, and therefore the military police who served as prison guards in the interrogation wing, were under pressure from as high as the White House to get detainees to give up more information.
Even as the White House pointed to the parole board as a responsible solution to get detainees out of Guantánamo, cases trickled to a slow pace, prompting former officials to loudly proclaim that the sloth – all of which was generated internally, far from the discontent of Congress – jeopardized the goal of shuttering Guantánamo.
To try and get detainees to talk, Lee would use psychological pressure about a prisoner's wife and children against them.
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The methods portrayed in the photographs were mild compared to those of Saddam Hussein, whose interrogators often got detainees to talk by abusing their wives and daughters in front of them.
The Dui Hua Foundation, an organization in San Francisco that promotes changes to the Chinese prison system, says simulated drowning, cigarette burns and beatings are common tactics for getting detainees to talk.
"I spent a large part of my time as foreign secretary making strong representations to the US government to get British detainees out of Guantánamo Bay and the US government's ill-treatment and torture of detainees remains a terrible stain on its record".
He said preparations were also in place to get the detainees out quickly and decontaminate them, and there were no injuries.
Other e-mails show that unnamed brig staff officers fought to get the detainees almost anything to occupy their minds, from a deck of cards to a soccer ball.
She said to me that we have got to get the detainee mess sorted out, that nobody is able to get answers.
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