In many ways, this ostensibly scientific blogpost is really a set-up, foundational article for another, one much more contemporaneous, in which I will document how the CIA has been researching SERE training and its effects upon soldiers for over a decade now. Ostensibly conducted, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in research grants, to better understand the mechanisms of stress and PTSD, the better to formulate treatments, recent history also demonstrates such research can be used for purposes of torture.

Even more, the documentary record will show that the CIA was well aware of the effects of their “enhanced interrogation techniques,” fed false information to the OLC (who may have also known it was false) to produce the infamous approvals of such “techniques.” All along, the military and the CIA was well-aware of the serious harm such torture could produce on its victims.

I’ve written about the research before, but had not tied it directly to the Pentagon and Langley. This article will be coming out soon, so please check back.

But then, since there were days where individual cadets didn’t work witht he rest of the company/platoon, it is quite possible (thinking of the days where we pulled KP and such)

But I would wager that the enlisted who were tasked with this probably enjoyed it just for the opportunity to abuse future officers without penalty.

Some of the background on the gradual decline of oversight re:CIA is on that thread.Pretty interesting stuff,and explains how they were allowed,over time, to play so fast and loose.

fatster August 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pm 34In response to Gitcheegumee @ 27 (show text)
Do go here. Interesting picture accompanies the story.

Pretty much addressed my hypothesis.