The essence of American Torture, wherever it takes place:
"pressure" in a comprehensive, systematic and cumulative manner...
"The insult slap “is often the first physical technique used with an High Value Detainee once an interrogation begins.”
It is all written in details, from the first "insult slap" to wherever it goes...
Among the documents released on Monday there is a "background paper" which describes the CIA’s process of “rendition” and the torture prisoners are then subjected to ( at least part of it)
Instructions on torture satrating at the "Welcome Home" upon arrival at the torture prisons :
Three stages and more : conditioning techniques, corrective techniques and coercive techniques...
“conditioning techniques” - detainee is reduced to a “baseline, dependent state”
"corrective techniques" - “insult slap,” “abdominal slap,” “facial hold,” and “attention grasp.”...
"coercive techniques" - .....
Background paper - HERE "The Combined techniques of the United States of America Torture Program:
Documents released (only a fraction of what exists, for sure)
