Here’s a link that blog – just for the record:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsme…..orture.php

I’m planning on writing something up for here at Oxdown (re this document). Since I threw out a lot of theories as I was reading. And I’d like to track down some evidence and just pull things together a bit better here.

It would be nice if a neurologist could weigh in a bit. Then again, we’d really need good testing to know more. But I’m mostly intrigued by his head wound from ‘92. The loss of ability to speak at that time – which suggests temporal lobe involvement. And the fact that any head injury, depending upon the source, can have such wide-ranging effects. The brain can heal itself in amazing ways. But also there are so many subtle losses a person can have. And epilepsy can be a result long after the injury. Plus, with temporal lobe involvement there is a potential for many personality changes, including the hypergraphia he may or may not have. (But the diaries stem from that time – from the time of his head wound. It would appear.)

Unfortunately, although the U.S. voted in favor of this Declaration, it’s not a treaty per se; it does not appear to have any mechanism by which it should be self-executing by the U.S.

Thus we might see a lot of cable traffic on days when Jessen and Mitchell were at work…followed a day or two later with the interrogation. Or there might be higher traffic if there was a medical “event”.

Also how does this stack up with the “authorities” that gave guidelines on how much waterboarding could be applied. Didn’t Yoo say it could only be applied 5 times in a calendar month? I imagine that some torture techniques like the “stress box”, or the sensory deprivation or overloading might be a turn on-turn off sort of instruction.

Furthermore, as the techniques went on Jessen-Mitchell may have been given less specific instructions.

Bounties got detainees! Maybe bounties could get us tapes of their torture! (not that I’d want to see that – on that I’d pass for sure!)

Humane treatment.