In the last issue of the Independent, Zach Martin wrote on the legality and morality of the CIA’s treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo.

Today, the New York Times breaks a disturbing story. According to the story, the CIA’s current interrogation methods were taken by verbatim from an Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners. So ironic, and too tragic.

The Times Reports:

Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said after reviewing the 1957 article that “every American would be shocked” by the origin of the training document.

“What makes this document doubly stunning is that these were techniques to get false confessions,” Mr. Levin said. “People say we need intelligence, and we do. But we don’t need false intelligence.”