Today the New York Times reveals that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used at Uncle Sam’s gulag in Guantánamo were “copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.”

The article continues:

The 1957 article from which the chart was copied was entitled “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War” and written by Alfred D. Biderman, a sociologist then working for the Air Force, who died in 2003. Mr. Biderman had interviewed American prisoners returning from North Korea, some of whom had been filmed by their Chinese interrogators confessing to germ warfare and other atrocities.

Those orchestrated confessions led to allegations that the American prisoners had been “brainwashed,”

Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Carl Levin said:

“What makes this document doubly stunning is that these were techniques to get false confessions,” Mr. Levin said. “People say we need intelligence, and we do. But we don’t need false intelligence.

Full article here…

This really is ironic: Neocons like Limbaugh, Hannity and Kristol, who are most vociferously opposed to communism — and especially Chinese communism — are also most vociferously supportive of our government’s use of torture techniques invented by Chinese communists! And they tell us the terrorists hate us for our freedom.