Interrogation


Torturing detainees: a how-to guide

A former Air Force officer runs through the US military’s Army Field Manual and its guidelines on interrogating prisoners: sleep deprivation, isolation and stress positions are all A-OK.

Detainee 063: Follow a Guantanamo interrogation in real-time

Detainee 063 is the shocking, real interrogation log of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed al-Qahtani. The entries are being blogged and tweeted in real-time, seven years after they took place.

The big problem in prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: torture

Prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed architect of 9/11, should be a no-brainer. But the torture he endured at the hands of Guantanamo interrogators may have ruined the entire case.

CIA kept detainees alive to torture them more

A human rights lawyer claims that under the Bush administration, the CIA tortured some terror suspects so badly during interrogation sessions, it had to keep them alive so they could continue being tortured.

Torture makes the innocent seem guilty

A new study has found that the more a victim suffers during torture, the guiltier they are perceived to be — even if they don’t confess to anything — as those complicit in the nasty interrogation method try to subconsciously justify their own actions.

No. 1 with a bullet: which songs are on Guantanamo’s greatest hits list?

A coalition of musicians is calling on the US government to reveal which songs have been used to torture prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. One prisoner claims to have been subjected to 20 straight hours of “The Real Slim Shady”.

CIA staged “mock executions” in interrogations

A soon-to-be-released report reveals that the CIA used “mock executions” to interrogate terror suspects, brandishing guns and firing shots in order to convince them they were about to be shot and force the suspects to talk.

I interrogated Zubaydah: we didn’t need to use torture

A former FBI agent claims waterboarding wasn’t necessary to uncover any intelligence from Abu Zubaydah — they had it all before the torture even started.