Recent CIA memos reveal the extent to which the CIA designed and engineered methods to extract truth i.e torture protocols from Al Qaeda prisoners. See this article at : http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/04/torture-memos-link-lawyers-and-psychologists.html
It appears that even in the murky, interconnected world of military tactics and prisoners of war, everyone copies everyone else. There are no more new weapons and counter-missiles are as good as missiles. So, torture tactics of the CIA are "reverse engineered tactics used by Soviet Union, North Korea". Such flattery to the axis of Evil! More importantly, in true American style, nothing can be designed, sold, deployed till an army of Ph.Dickers have blessed with their own words of wisdom. So, 2 psychologists (noted, interesting, as Mormons by VF) said blithely that these torture would not cause long term damage or trauma. Yet a few months earlier Christopher Hitchens contacted the venerable SERE ((Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) Agency and under went an anonymously delivered waterboarding. He came back with a single conclusion: "The CIA states that waterboarding simulates drowning. Well, it does not. It IS drowning!".
An an engineer, I wonder what the teams would looks around the delivery of a torture method. Er, guys, need to get angle and geometry of the board right, calculate the shear forces on a torso of 50 kg and its tangential velocity, amount of oxygen depletion under a wet towel with diffusivity being...you get the drift.
What a hopeless world!
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