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108 national lawyers guild review44. Prisoner Abuse: Patterns from the Past, supra note 37.45. Id.46. See McCoy, supra note 22, at 11.47. According to the US Air Force SERE Specialist Website, the first SERE trainingprogram began in 1947 at Marks AFB, Alaska. See Gosere.com, at http://www.gosere.com/medium.html (last visited Nov. 9, 2008). However, according toMichael Otterman, training to “inoculate soldiers against the stress of torture” beganin 1953, and was exported to allies in South-East Asia by the late 1950s. MichaelOtterman, American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib andBeyond 71 (2007), at 11-12.48. See Jane Mayer, The Experiment: The Military Trains People to WithstandInterrogation. Are Those Methods Being Misused at Guantanamo?, New Yorker,July 11, 2005, at 60.49. Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union quotes the formerchief interrogator saying “[w]hen I arrived at GTMO my predecessor arranged forSERE instructors to teach their techniques to the interrogators at GTMO. . . Theinstructors did give some briefings to the Joint Interrogation Group interrogators.”Plainly, SERE instructors were instrumental in transferring the knowledge of “clean”torture to Guantanamo Bay. Mark Benjamin, Torture Teachers, Salon, June 29,2006, at http://www.salon.comlnews/feature/2006/06/29/torture/.50. Richard E. Mezo, Why It Was Called ‘Water Torture,’ Wash. Post, Feb. 10, 2008,at B7.51. Id.52. A.J. Langguth, Torture’s Teachers, N.Y. Times, June 11, 1979, at A19 [hereinafterLangguth, Torture’s Teachers]; see A.J. Langguth, Hidden Terrors 25(Pantheon 1978) [hereinafter Langguth, Hidden Terrors]; Alexander Cockburn,The Wide World of Torture, Counterpunch, Nov. 9, 2001, available at http://www.counterpunch.org/torture2.html.53. See Cockburn, supra note 52.54. See Langguth, Hidden Terrors, supra note 52, at 286.55. See Otterman, supra note 47, at 76.56. See Langguth, Torture’s Teachers, supra note 52.57. See Langguth, Hidden Terrors, supra note 52, at 251-53.58. In re Guantanamo Detainee Cases, 355 F.Supp.2d 443, 474 (2005), vacated anddismissed, Boumediene v. Bush, 2007 U.S. App. Lexis 3682 (D.C. Ci., Feb 20,2007), cert. granted, 127 S.Ct. 1478, 167 L.Ed. 578 (June 29, 2007), decided 128S.Ct. 2229 (June 12, 2008).59. Margulies, supra note 11, at 5-6.60. Binyam Mohammed’s case is more fully discussed in, Alan W. Clarke, Renditionto Torture, a Critical Legal History, 62 Rutger’s L. Rev. (2009).61. Caitlin Price, White House Memos to CIA Approved Waterboarding: WashingtonPost, Jurist, Oct. 15, 2008, at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/10/whitehouse-memos-to-cia-approved.php.Two classified memos sent from the BushAdministration to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 explicitly sanctioned the use of water-

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