Guantanamo techniques applied on US soil: civil rights groups - Yahoo! News

Guantanamo techniques applied on US soil: civil rights groups - Yahoo! News: "Guantanamo techniques applied on US soil: civil rights groups

Wed Oct 8, 7:32 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Internal documents show the US military exported the 'brutal interrogation techniques' from Guantanamo prison and applied them to three terror suspects in US jails, civil rights groups said Wednesday.
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The so-called 'Guantanamo protocols' -- sleep and sensory deprivation, prolonged isolation and death threats -- have been applied to mainland prisons despite attempts by some military personnel to improve harsh conditions, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Clinic at Yale Law School said in a statement.

The military documents, including regular emails between military officers, were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and detail the detention and interrogation at naval prisons in Virginia and South Carolina."