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Guantanamo Bay Prison: Where Truth Goes To Die

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After the terrorist events of September 11th 2001, the Bush White House, led by its legal counsel, drafted memorandums that would not only infringe on the rights of detained foreign prisoners, but also deny them any protections afforded to them by the Geneva Conventions. The State Department also authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to implement a strategy at obtaining information "through any means necessary". So in 2002, the CIA would hire Mitchell, Jessen and Associates, to conduct a method on detainees entitled the SERE program where acts of torture would be implemented by captured prisoners to elicit information. Most of which would turn out to be false data. 

The manipulation of minds:reckoning with the legacy of the american post 9/11 torture program (Maria Hartwig & Mark Fallon):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36519198/

The Guantánamo Docket:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html

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