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...images out of Abu Ghraib prison fit into the canon of torture tactics? Soldiers claim they were told by military intelligence officers to "soften up" the detainees for questioning. Certainly, putting hoods over prisoners' heads and stripping them naked would conform to common, if primitive, interrogation-prep tactics. Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has witnessed military training for interrogations, confirms that sexual humiliation is also a well-known tool. "The idea of interrogation is to break down the person so all his resistance is shot, and then he'll tell you anything," he says. "In the process, sexual humiliation...
...mails that Frederick sent home suggest he took pride in his role in "softening up" detainees for the MI staff. "They usually don't allow others to watch them interrogate, but since they like the way I run the prison, they make an exception," he told a family member in an e-mail shared with TIME. The sergeant also boasted, "We have a very high [success] rate with our style of getting them to break. They usually end up breaking within a couple of hours." Around the time military officials launched a criminal investigation, Frederick's e-mails started...
Though military trials usually take place out of public view, they aren't unusual. Thousands of soldiers are brought before courts-martial every year for offenses ranging from conduct unbecoming an officer to rape and homicide. Penalties range from a dishonorable discharge and demotion in rank to decades in prison or the death penalty. The most famous court-martial in recent memory was the 1971 trial of Lieut. William Calley, who was charged with murder for his involvement in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Although a jury convicted Calley and sentenced him to life in prison, President Nixon reduced...
Here is what the business looks like, separate and apart from the brutality documented at Abu Ghraib prison: since 9/11, according to U.S. officials and former prisoners, detainees under U.S. supervision in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at undisclosed other locations have been stripped naked, covered with hoods, deprived of sleep and light, and made to stand or sit in painful positions for extended periods. Some have been drugged. Sexual humiliation is not unheard of. Even the Federal Bureau of Prisons has lent a hand in this enterprise. According to a Justice Department inspector-general's report, Muslim...
...lead to "the exploitation of women as 'fetus farms.'" Such arguments have persuaded eight states, including Iowa, Michigan and Kansas, to restrict therapeutic-cloning research. More dramatically, the U.S. House passed legislation last year that would make cloning human cells a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill stalled in the Senate, in part because of opposition from Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who is antiabortion yet favors stem-cell research...