In case you’re wondering, as I’ve been writing about former CIA Director George Tenet’s “enhanced interrogation” guidelines — and the place of “prolonged diapering” within them – I reached out to a representative for Tenet for comment, and was told that he’s not going to be talking. Perhaps that’s More…
Commenter Decora points to some references to diapering in the 2005 Office of Legal Counsel memoranda on torture. What’s striking is how the CIA describes the technique — evidently used, according to both the 2004 CIA inspector general report and the 2007 Red Cross report, in support More…
The CIA’s Office of Medical Services was very clear in its September 2003 guidelines about the objective of the “enhanced interrogation” techniques were. “In all instances,” reads the Sept. 4, 2003 memorandum, “the general goal of these techniques is a psychological impact, and not some physical effect, with a More…
Marcy Wheeler may have solved a mystery about the previously unacknowledged CIA “enhanced interrogation” technique of “prolonged diapering.” I wondered in my initial post where the CIA got the legal authorization for the technique from, as the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture says that the CIA withdrew More…
In order to learn more about the mysterious “prolonged diapering” technique formerly employed by the CIA — possibly the technique nebulously referred to in the 2004 inspector general report as an eleventh and previously unacknowledged interrogation method — I turned to the International Committee of the Red Cross’s More…
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