From Sci-Tech Today:The list of techniques the CIA used included prolonged sleep deprivation -- six days in at least one instance -- being chained in painful positions, exploitation of prisoners' phobias, and waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning that President Barack Obama has called torture. Three CIA prisoners were waterboarded, two of them extensively.
Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a scientific paper published Monday.
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My Comment: Another article in my long series that examines the effectiveness (or lack of) in using torture on terrorism suspects.
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