Sleepwalking Through History
May 10th, 2009 at 7:08 pm by BrianThe LA Times is fretting that terrorists not being waterboarded were also not allowed to get their beauty rest either. Horror of horrors:
Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivationReporting from Washington — As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the CIA’s use of severe interrogation methods, the White House fielded a flurry of last-minute appeals.
One came from former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, who expressed disbelief that the administration was prepared to expose methods it might later decide it needed.
“Are you telling me that under all conditions of threat, you will never interfere with the sleep cycle of a detainee?” Hayden asked a top White House official, according to sources familiar with the exchange.
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“My response was shocked concern,” Horne (some whiny British sleep expert pussy) said in an e-mail interview. Just because the pain of sleep deprivation “can’t be measured in terms of physical injury or appearance . . . does not mean that the mental anguish is not as bad.”
Oh, dear. Not mental anguish! On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you compare the mental anguish of someone watching their loved one’s remains being burnt alive by jet fuel versus Abu Yabba Dabbadoo pulling an all-nighter?
It’s a tough call. Luckily B. “The One” O’Bomber banned forcing terrorists from staying up passed bedtime to watch Letterman as “torture”.
If only the rest of us were so fortunate.
We should have just given them some Ambien and then they would have stripped down on their own and led us back to their rebel base. That’s probably illegal too. Though the thought of photos of Khalid Mohammed’s droopy eyes laughing it up with CIA agents as they go for the bonus round of Naked Sorry! would have been the propaganda motherload.
Given the CIA’s history of sadism, Naked Mousetrap would have been asking for trouble.