mcdonalds, subway, a bag of pistachios and breasts

that's now how (they want us to believe) detainees at gitmo are being interrogated.

number one - i wonder to myself. why are they offering subway and micky Ds? aren't most if not all of the 'detainees' muslims who observe strict halal meat laws? shows just how much we DON'T know about 'friendly persuasion' doesn't it?

i believe this is happening. a kinder gentler interrogation. i also am not naive enough to believe for ONE SECOND stricter and harsher methods of interrogation have been put aside.

don't get me wrong. ANY and ALL (including DOMESTIC TERRORISTS LIKE THOSE WHO BOMB ABORTION CLINICS) terrorists deserved to be locked up and punished to THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW. what i also believe in is OUR CONSTITUTION AND THE GENEVA CONVENTION

at any rate, i found this piece of steamin' propaganda most interesting in an effed up sort of way of course

Pistachios at Guantanamo

By Jackson Diehl

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Via a monitoring camera, I saw a snippet of an interrogation session here one day last week inside one of the high-security complexes where foreign detainees are held. No faces were visible, but I glimpsed the jingling bracelets, open-toed sandals and skirts of two young women, who were seated in soft leather chairs around a table with a man in prison garb. One woman was the interrogator; the other was a translator. The means of persuasion, apart from the evident feminine charm, was a generous bag of pistachios -- a usually unavailable treat.
Yes, I was on a tour organized by the Pentagon; but no, the scene I witnessed was not a staged departure from a norm of pressure and pain. Rather, it was a sign of what five years of experience have taught Guantanamo's interrogators about the most effective means of collecting intelligence from the "enemy combatants" captured in the fight against al-Qaeda. "Most of the productivity we see over time," said a top intelligence official, "comes from the milk of human kindness."...........