Bush Administration Approved The Use Of Insects During Al Qaeda Interrogation

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Bush Administration Approved The Use Of Insects During Al Qaeda Interrogation
Posted by michaelscherer

The Bush Administration approved the use of "insects placed in a confinement box" during the interrogation of top Al Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2002 document that President Obama declassified for release Thursday.

The legal memorandum for the CIA, prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, reviewed 10 enhanced techniques for interrogating Zubaydah, and determined that none of them constituted torture under U.S. criminal law. The techniques were: attention grasp, walling (hitting a detainee against a flexible wall), facial hold, facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box, and waterboarding.

The CIA desire to use insects during interrogations has not previously been disclosed, according to two civil liberties experts contacted by TIME. The Bybee memorandum described the CIA's plans for using insects this way:

You would like to place Zubaydah in a cramped confinement box with an insect. You have informed us that he appears to have a fear of insects. In particular, you would like to tell Zubaydah that you intend to place a stinging insect into the box with him. You would, however, place a harmless insect in the box. You have orally informed us that you would in fact place a harmless insect such as a caterpillar in the box with him.

An additional sentence at the end of this paragraph is redacted in the copy made public Thursday. Later in the same memo, Bybee concludes that "an individual placed in a box, even an individual with a fear of insects, would not reasonably feel threatened with severe physical pain or suffering if a caterpillar was placed in the box." Bybee adds, however, that the interrogators should not tell Zubaydah that the insect sting "would produce death or severe pain."

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[uponit7771]

1. Some sick bastards...really sick people...

[valerief]

2. Well, these sickos gotta get their snuff films somehow. nt

[choie]

3. Who the fuck thinks of these things?????

[Supersedeas]

4. A portion of the Bybee Memo is redacted regarding the use of insects

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. I'm waiting for the whole "Rat in the Eye" trick

:wow:

Scorpion in that little box with you, Haji! Scorpion in the little box Haji! Wanna talk now, Haji! It's a big black fucking scorpion we put in thgat little box, you dirty fucking Haji. It's gonna be your coffin, Haji! It's gonna bite you right in the fucking balls, Haji. You're gonna get scorpion bit on your fucking Haji dick, Haji! How the dfuck you like that?

[That Is Quite Enough]

6. "You asked me once, what was in Room 101..."

"I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world."
-O'Brien, 1984