Sworn statement by an assistant platoon commander in charge of maintaining a temporary holding facility and providing "over-watch for tactical interrogations." Discusses detainee holding and interrogation practices. States, "The most aggressive interrogation techniques we have used are sleep management and stress positions. With sleep management, we'll adjust the sleep schedule of the individual. I'll give guidance to the guards when a person is to sleep and not to sleep... They must get four hours of sleep for every 24 hours, but it doesn't have to be in a single block. 48 hours is the longest we've ever done sleep management... All the stress positions are directed by the interrogator." The rest of the document is redacted.
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•separated the males and females. We'll start interrogating each mole first. Then we try
• to idatlfy which are HVT, and anything that they have tertarget, lam weapons,
.•..I.; munitions, IEDs. We do a max 29, 30 minute interrogation on target and make a
_decision an who we want to bring back to our detention balky. I identify those folks
and let my OIC know and he =km. the decision who we're taking and who we're
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. - interrogation. Telly most of the interrogations start off with a direct approach
questions. Ideally, if we've captured nrore than one individual, we're trying to Set
information from both of them and see if it's not matching up, than we go beck and
• approach the questions again. We've also got a list of questions they've developed off of
•intelligence. Because we have only one boa:raptor we limit the total duration of interrogadona from time of capture to time of to about 30 or 40 hours. We only
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have one interpreter at our facility. The longest a single intaroption session has some
was maybe an hour, hour and a half. The most aggressive intenoption tec hniques we
have used are sleep management and stress positions. With sleep manegement,
adjust the sleep schedule tithe individual. I'll give guidance to the guards when a person isto sleep and not to sleep. It also comes hem the 'abnegator depending on how the interrogation is going. They must get four house of sleep for every24 boas, but itdoesn't have to be in • block. 4$ hours Is the longest we've ever done sleepmanagement.I daft use that technique at the RCT Alt the positions are directed by the intaregater.
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STATEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS STATEMENT FREELY WITHOUT HOPE OF
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