Why am I less than happy about finding synchronicities between so-called psychologists involved in torture, and researchers in physiology from German and South Africa…ugh.

I’m hoping it’s just a fluke.

Jessen, C. (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Germany)

The same person’s work,

Jessen, C. (2001). Temperature Regulation in Humans and Other Mammals. Berlin: Springer.

was referred to in a number of other physiological studies.

Could be purely coincidental — or they could have seen his work and decided to offer Jessen another chance to “study” on humans.

Certainly would explain the videotapes; wouldn’t that also explain at least one description of the tapes as “clinical” in nature?

I’m going to be out of pocket much of the day, will try to follow up later this afternoon if you leave anything here or by email. Thanks much!

[edit: btw, Jessen’s name has appeared as John “Bruce” Jessen in at least one other outlet’s reporting, including the quote marks; to my mind, this suggests an assigned op name.]

A friend just suggested something like that to me. The friend even wondered if the last names were as well?

Here’s one:

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=…..=firefox-a

It may take me a few to find the other I came across. BTW, you’ll find them in the appendix under contributing authors.

Spent a big chunk of time surfing docs from Vietnam looking for names, have only run into one oddity, wondering if I needed to look under different names.

[edit: btw, Jessen’s name has appeared as John “Bruce” Jessen in at least one other outlet’s reporting, including the quote marks; to my mind, this suggests an assigned op name.]

If interested, I’ll try and find the link and repost.

Assume that these so-called advisers were 30 years of age in 1970; we’re looking for men about 69 years old, give or take five years depending on their stature within the program.

Ask Graham: they’ve probably been using this ”technique” for 500 years too. Greatest hits and all. Top ten.

It didn’t ”work” on Arar. He was completely innocent. He had never been to Afghanistan. He was a software engineer and family man in Canada and the US. Under torture he told them what they wanted to hear. I remember the reports in Canada that characterized him as a terrorist. For months. Officials, Members of Parliament, Lawyers … it went on and on. Lies based on nothing.

Under torture at Gitmo, the child soldier Omar Khadr identified Arar as someone he had seen at a safe house in Afghanistan. From a black and white driver’s license photo. And Arar remains on the US no fly list. And Napolitano among others still repeats the lie that some of the 9/11 hijackers came through the Canadian border. The Canadian ambassador in Washington follows this up each time it reappears and still this lie will not die. I guess it’s a guilt/denial thing.

Meanwhile the Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that the Canadian government MUST repatriate Khadr from Gitmo. The Canadian government is appealing the ruling. Hearings on Khadr’s case have been started and stopped three times now? The defense team has reported ongoing and repeated prosecutorial misconduct.

All of these lies have so much power.

But, yes, we have only just begun and we shall see what time brings to light and thought.

Thanks and congratulations ew!