{"id":559,"date":"2010-07-15T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=559"},"modified":"2010-07-15T18:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T00:43:27","slug":"un-american-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2010\/07\/15\/un-american-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Un-American activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We&#8217;re Americans. We don&#8217;t torture. Any claim to the contrary is poppycock.\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s un-American.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/issues\/issues_Bybee.html\">transcripts<\/a> from the House of Representatives, CIA detainees&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>were made to wear a diaper\u00c2\u00a0[p. 79]\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/li>\n<li>had to listen to music\u00c2\u00a0[p. 79]\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/li>\n<li>were blindfolded [p. 79]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Sheesh. Diapers, music and blindfolds are now torture?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>would be shackled hand-and-foot [p. 79]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Now we&#8217;re talking. Come on, this was war. And shackling isn&#8217;t torture.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>could not use the toilet\u00c2\u00a0[p. 79]\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/li>\n<li>were obligated to urinate or defecate on themselves in their diaper [p. 79]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Wait. What? &#8230; Remember: this was war.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>were held in solitary confinement [p. 82]<\/li>\n<li>were usually guarded by masked men [p. 82]<\/li>\n<li>were isolated for over three years with no contacts other than their interrogators with no knowledge of where they were [p. 82]<\/li>\n<li>would have their wrists shackled for long periods of time [p. 85]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I told you. This was war!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>were shackled while standing, with their hands tied to the ceiling [p. 85]<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; for two or three days [p. 85]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Come on, man.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>were subjected to daily beatings, including slapping, punching and sometimes kicking in the body or face [p. 91]<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; beatings that lasted up to 30 minutes [p. 91]<\/li>\n<li>&#8230; and were repeated over the course of days [p. 91]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>You&#8217;re spending too much time online, man. \u00c2\u00a0Where do you get this stuff, anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/hearings\/pdf\/BTranscript.pdf\">Transcript of May 26, 2010 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Interview of Former Assistant Attorney General, Jay Bybee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:75%;font-style:italic;\">hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2010\/07\/15\/jay-bybee-admits-cia-had-no-approval-for-water-dousing-diapering\/\">emptywheel\/firedoglake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re Americans. We don&#8217;t torture. Any claim to the contrary is poppycock.\u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;s un-American. According to transcripts from the House of Representatives, CIA detainees&#8230; were made to wear a diaper\u00c2\u00a0[p. 79]\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf had to listen to music\u00c2\u00a0[p. 79]\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf were blindfolded [p. 79] Sheesh. Diapers, music and blindfolds are now torture? would be shackled hand-and-foot [p. 79] Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}