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Enhanced interrogation techniques
From Metapedia
Enhanced interrogation techniques rough interrogation, the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods, and alternative set of procedures are terms adopted by the George W. Bush administration to describe methods considered by many to be torture used by the US military intelligence and the CIA to extract information from captives as part of the War on Terror.
Despite the euphemism "enhanced interrogation techniques" the International Committee of the Red Cross, the United Nations, the Commissioner for Human Rights, the UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Human Rights First (HRF) and Physicians for Human Rights (PFH), Amnesty International, Elizabeth de la Vega, and many other experts classify them as torture, and also consider the techniques ineffective. For its use on Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, the government of Canada added the U.S. to a list of countries that employ interrogation methods that amount to torture.
Although reactions by the administration and its supporters remain ambiguous, former US president Jimmy Carter is among those who publicly stated it is torture in an interview on October 10 2007, "The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law." Only a handful of CIA interrogators have had training in the use of enhanced interrogation techniques after U.S. President George W. Bush first authorized them in mid-March 2002.
Alternative methods
During the war in Rhodesia the Selous Scouts took prisoners and turned them. They got their full cooperation without torture. Selous Scouts: top secret war by Ron Reid Daly & Peter Stiff explains how it was done. Giving prisoners decent treatment was a surprise to a lot of them. Medical treatment was part of it. Then there was the offer; join us or get tried by civilian courts for waging war. Very few refused. The technique might well have been used in Malaya. Many men in Rhodesia served with C Squadron during the Confrontation so they knew.
