The US softened up Gitmo detainees for Chinese Interrogators...

[cynatnite]

snip:
"We were informed that the Chinese government sent people to interview and interrogate the Uighurs," Fine said.

Additionally, Fine said, FBI officials reported that before the Chinese interrogators arrived, U.S. military personnel had awakened the Uighurs every 15 minutes in a sleep-deprivation interrogation tactic.

Delahunt asked whether the FBI officials had seen the tactic as collaboration, "doing this to, if you will, soften up the Uighurs for examination by Chinese Communist agents?"

Fine answered: "They reported this was the technique that was used, what they call the frequent flier program, to put the Uighurs in a position to be interrogated by the Chinese government."

Rohrabacher called the military's involvement "ridiculous." He said the Uighurs should be freed in the United States.

"We will call on the government to do so forthwith," Rohrabacher said. "And if it indeed looks like they've been unjustly treated that we offer some compensation, as well as an apology."

Both lawmakers agreed to push the Bush administration to release the Uighurs in the United States, although Delahunt predicted that Rohrabacher, a Republican, "will have more access to the powers that be than I will."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/05/america/gitmo.php

[Eric J in MN]

1. We need regulation of sleep deprivation.

Not just for Gitmo prisoners.

It's done by police in the US, too:
Deprive a suspect of sleep until he signs a confession.