The Chronicle: Mapping Out the Interrogation of Ghazi Falah
One of the few scholars who has experienced firsthand the interviewing techniques used by a modern, sophisticated intelligence agency describes how detainees’ reason is clouded and their wills are broken.:
In the annals of interrogation, one primary source serves again and again to describe the experience of forced sleep deprivation.
“In the head of the interrogated prisoner, a haze begins to form. His spirit is wearied to death, his legs are unsteady, and he has one sole desire: to sleep,” the account says. “Anyone who has experienced this desire knows that not even hunger and thirst are comparable with it.”
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