WASHINGTON: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint" and "exposure."
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 air force study of Chinese techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners....
...some of whom had been filmed by their Chinese interrogators confessing to germ warfare and other atrocities.
[From U.S. interrogators were taught Chinese coercion techniques - International Herald Tribune]
We, of course, loudly called it "brainwashing" at the time and disavowed the confessions. So the question now is, since we've adopted these coercive techniques and extracted confessions of our own which we (right, I'm using "we" rather loosely here) claim are true confessions, are we retroactively admitting we did use germ warfare in Korea? And commit other atrocities?
Or does all this have something to do with - oh, I don't know - bullshit?
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