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Chinese Communists inspired interrogations at Guantánamo
The NY 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.”
Torture is not a Republican value
Just one question: Would President Reagan condone torture? The answer is self-evident. He would not. Reagan won the Cold War without torturing anyone. Some recent examples of the actual results from torture are revealing. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded by the CIA and wound up confessing to 31 terrorist acts, most of which he could not possibly have carried out…
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