Ironic isn't it?

WASHINGTON — The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002
based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive
management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep
deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”

What the trainers
did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied
verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during
the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American
prisoners.

And lest we not forget, St. McCain voted to allow this...

Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at Guantánamo before
2005, when Congress banned the use of coercion by the military. The C.I.A. is
still authorized by President Bush to use a number of secret “alternative”
interrogation methods.