CIA Torture Experts - Give Sadism a Bad Name

More information about CIA torture techniques and the training they gave interrogators has surfaced. It’s not a pretty story. Seems the CIA hired a couple of “experts” to develop guidelines for the torture otherwise known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape). Not only is this a detailed instruction manual of how-to torture techniques, it’s full of typos that even a Dyslexic like myself could catch.

Funny how the CIA is willing to pay these “experts” $1000 a day plus expenses to produce crap. Why do I call it crap? Well for those not faint of heart I will give you a little background on my experience. I am a BDSM enthusiast, and have been for decades. I have lots of experience with inducing pain to elicit confessions (though mine are always with consensual adult partners). I have learned that people under extreme duress, even though it is part of a “play” setting suspend their disbelief sufficiently to respond physically and sometimes psychologically as though the situation was real. Specifically, using techniques far less drastic that the CIA, I have found people will do or say just about anything to stop the pain or stress if it exceeds their stamina. In a BDSM situation it means using a safeword, but in a torture interrogation there is no safeword, so subjects will tell the interrogators whatever they want to hear, as long as the pain stops. People will confess to stealing the Lindberg baby just to stop the torture. How valuable would that confession be?

It is tempting to use the ticking bomb scenario to justify torture, but in reality it gets you nothing. It is both tragic and amusing how people who should understand this are so eager to use ineffective and illegal techniques when given the chance. And they call me twisted? Clearly the CIA has just tapped into a bunch of closet Sadists who never got a chance to learn how to safely experience their fantasies and are now inflicting grievous harm on prisoners in the name of our country.