For me , 3 hours.... How about you??
opednews.com
"When the Office of Legal Counsel torture memos recently became public, I was confused for a while. The ICRC accounts of detainees tortured by the CIA had included being shackled to the ceiling , clad only in diapers, for days on end. The detainees told of excruciating suffereing, leading to scarred wrists. One detainee told of how an artificial leg was sometimes removed, causing him to have to stand on one leg. Both detainees and the torture memos inform us that doctors monitored the swelling of detainees legs to keep it within acceptable limits, swithcing to other unbearable positions to keep the prisoners awake when the swelling went beyond those limits.
Yet, when I looked in the memos under "stress positions," no such shackling was mentioned. It was only upon close reading that I realized that this exquisite torture was categorized, not as a stress position, but solely as "sleep deprivation," constituting yet another of those distortions of language that so characterized the Bush administration. It, along with semi-starvation, was part of the baseline treatment administered to soften prisoners before they were slapped around, slammed into walls, or waterboarded." |
