NP? echoes of Kenosha Kid

[Doug Millison]

[...]  Gitmo is no place for a vacation. Sources tell Time that U.S.
interrogators have developed a technique to pry information out of some
detainees. Targeted prisoners are isolated from contact with others until
they become dependent on their questioners. It takes time, but, as a source
says, "When you sit there staring at the ocean and you see how far you are
from home and you're never going to get there, that all works on your
mind." Meanwhile, at a secret location, CIA officers continue to question
Abu Zubaydah, the suspected al-Qaeda operations chief who was captured
after a March gunfight in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Abu Zubaydah, say CIA and
other U.S. government sources, is not being tortured, but a variety of
methods are being used to encourage him to talk. Typical military
interrogation tactics would include depriving him of sleep, changing the
temperature of his cell and "modulating caloric intakes"-spookspeak for
withholding food and then providing it as a reward. [...]
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,262920,00.html

...None dare call it torture...I wouldn't be surprised if they also withold
medical treatment, as they did with Lindh, in addition to starving them and
circulating them between oven and freezer. It sounds like the way China
treats its political prisoners, as described by many; a good place to
start:  _The Courage to Stand Alone_ by Wei Jingsheng.