Stress Position

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post Deep among the documents released to the ACLU on……the wall, with some protective measures to avoid severe injuries), water dousing, the use of the stress position (known to the inquisition as the _strapado_, to the Germans in World War II…

It is worth remembering given the current state of the debate. Karl Rove has been aggressively arguing that nothing that the Bush administration did could be construed as torture, not even the Khmer Rouge technique of water-boarding, let alone the long-term sleep deprivation, stress positions,…

by AndrewIn the latest release from those in the Bush administration and CIA who authorized and……subjected to an escalating series of brutal torture sessions - he was shackled naked to maintain a stress position for a month, the shackles cutting into his wrists and forcing his feet to…

By Scott Horton Special to the Huffington Post Deep among the documents released to the ACLU on……the wall, with some protective measures to avoid severe injuries), water dousing, the use of the stress position (known to the inquisition as the strapado, to the Germans in World War II as…

photo by craigmorsels These are medieval documents, these Office of Legal Counsel memos. And not just in the sense that torture techniques like……insult slap is simultaneously combined with water dousing or a kneeling stress position, or when wall standing is simultaneously combined…

A reader writes:The comments by your dissenting reader and Abe Greenwald both contain a typical point made by the pro- "coercive interrogation"……Maybe a few days with no sleep? Still nothing? Ok, then perhaps a stress position as well? Hey, are we getting some weeping? Good, now we're…

A reader writes:This is an eye opening event for me.  It’s easier for a liberal like me, who voted against Bush twice, to feel I’m off……in the face?(Photo: a torture victim murdered while being beaten in a stress position by a masked US agent at Abu Ghraib.)

Another glimpse into the American gulag, courtesy of the Red Cross - in this case the torture of Bin Attash, who had lost a leg in Afghanistan and was thus a very good candidate for the technique which was one of Stalin's and Rumsfeld's favorites - long-time standing - or a form of stress…

"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu……in Washington: a statue of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoner in cruciform stress position -- the real Bush legacy. …

Defenders of the OLC torture memos have maintained for months that it is unfair to criticize Bush Administration lawyers for their “good faith”……grabbing and holding face, slapping face, slapping abdomen, placing in stress position for hours (standing, sitting with hands above head,…

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. We practiced sleep deprivation on him for 11 straight days. I don't know how many times we smashed his head against a wall, slapped him in the face, put him in a stress position in a freezing room and/or put him in a coffin sized box in extreme…

Matthew Schmitz doesn't think that all of the photos should be released:Releasing all of the Abu Ghraib pictures would make available a numbing……and that photography is critical to proving this. When you hear the word "stress position" it's easier to block it out and keep on walking…

The only thing in all the world I love more than flowcharts, which are awesome, are Venn diagrams. I especially adore interactive Venn diagrams……be put in the stockade and who needs to bound, blindfolded, folded into a stress position and carted off to a CIA prison or the…

Jay Bybee, as a Bush administration political appointee Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice,……hold, (4) facial slap, (5) cramped confinement, (6) wall standing, (7) stress position, (8) sleep deprivation, (9) insects placed in a…

Even those point scholars with the darkest stories of adversity, like Emory’s Bryan Olsen, seem more buoyant than Point lets on. I heard Olsen……as punishment for a three-meal hunger strike, he was forced to sit in a stress position—cross-legged, with his nose touching a wall—for…