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Agence France-Presse

05/10/09

More than 25 of the CIA’s war-on-terror prisoners were subjected to sleep deprivation during the administration of former president George W. Bush, the Los Angeles Times reported. Citing memoranda made public by the Justice Department, the newspaper said that at one point, the Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to keep prisoners awake for as long as 11 days. However, the limit was later reduced to just over a week, the report said. Sleep deprivation had been one of the most important elements in the CIA’s interrogation program, used to help break dozens of suspected terrorists, the paper said...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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