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To: LindyBill who wrote (42792)	5/8/2004 2:03:53 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793725

<Putting bags over prisoners heads and stripping them naked to humiliate them is a standard interrogation technique, taught at our Intel schools. It is a lot more humane than torture. > Lindy, putting myself in the position of being interrogated, I think being treated like that, sleep deprived, terrorized and generally abused, would make me disinclined to co-operate in any way and inclined to conduct a suicidal attack on the interrogators. The military intelligence people who came up with that system perhaps know what they are doing, but I suspect that they don't. Maybe for people they know are guilty of something, or who are confirmed enemies, it might make some sense, but even then I doubt it. For neutral people scooped off the street, they'd make instant and passionate enemies. Which is really, really stupid, unless they are planning a genocidal war against anyone who is Moslem, or Arab or Iraqi or Sunni or some such and I think we are very far from that situation. Making enemies out of neutral people, and their friends and families, is not generally a smart idea. I think the best way to interrogate people, being an expert on these things, is intelligent questioning and interaction. What gets rewarded gets done. That's what should be remembered in human interaction. Punishment is okay for stopping behaviour, but it's not much use for creating behaviour other than mindless obedience. I suppose Stockholm Syndrome is probably the approach which lots of people would best respond to; converting the prisoner to the captor's cause. It looks from the current interrogation efforts that the USA purposes have been defeated in all respects. Which proves that they had no idea what they were doing and my methods should be used. Mqurice