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Email from [redacted] to [redacted] re: Description of Physical Pressures

| ACLU-RDI 6553
This July 9, 2002 email from [redacted] to [redacted] re: Description of Physical Pressures, includes the contents of a memo from Jim Mitchell describing "potential physical and psychological pressures" to be used on a particular detainee. The pressures include attention grasp, walling, facial hold, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, water board, use of diapers, insects, and mock burial. In the previous release of this document (on June 13, 2016), the name "Jim Mitchell" was redacted in the subject line and the purpose and intent of using the above techniques was redacted.