DRUDGE REPORT HEADER: TIME MAG: CHRISTINA AGUILERA MUSIC USED AS TORTURE IN GITMO

Damn, the lines between entertainment and public policy are being squished together into one great big cluster ___ ! if these events were not so alarming, they would certainly be comic. Dave Chappelle could have written the skit, or it could be a send-up on SNL.

OP-ED: How should we treat prisoners? Should GITMO be another Camp Cupcake?

http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,1071230,00.html

Dripping Water or Playing Christina Aguilera Music: After the new measures are approved, the mood in al-Qahtani’s interrogation booth changes dramatically. The interrogation sessions lengthen. The quizzing now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera music. According to the log, his handlers at one point perform a puppet show “satirizing the detainee’s involvement with al-Qaeda.” He is taken to a new interrogation booth, which is decorated with pictures of 9/11 victims, American flags and red lights. He has to stand for the playing of the U.S. national anthem. His head and beard are shaved. He is returned to his original interrogation booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers. Al-Qahtani repeats that he will “not talk until he is interrogated the proper way.” At 7 a.m. on Dec. 4, after a 12-hour, all-night session, he is put to bed for a four-hour nap, TIME reports.