One of the big revelations to come out of the Senate Armed Services Committee report on so-called aggressive interrogation techniques is an early July 2002 training session where officials from the military’s Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA)–the agency that oversees the SERE training program–provided “assistance to another government agency.” Much of this section of the report is blacked out, so I’ll connote blacked out sections with asterisks [***], but the report says JPRA was assisting this agency “on topics such as ‘*** deprivation techniques,’ ‘exploitation and questioning techniques,’ and ‘developing countermeasures to resistance techniques.'” According to the report, “[t]he training was intended to “prepare *** officers for rotations in Afghanistan and elsewhere.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=143468