From a transcript of a report by the US Senate Armed Services Committee:
While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not being successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq,” Army psychiatrist Maj. Paul Burney is quoted in the Senate report as saying about Guantánamo. “The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish this link … there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.”
Link via Jim Henley, who points out in addition that the various torture methods used on detainees at Guatnanamo have been historically implemented to extract false confessions. At the very least, they are structured so that interrogators are told what they want to hear.
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