Sado-Masochism Watch Several reports, including the incomparable Sy Hersh have mentioned that as part of its very very special interrogation program it was decided to tape various forms of, ahem, "treatment" given to detainees. Now, from Reuters comes this report:

A third Briton detained at Guantanamo Bay told a newspaper he was mistreated by his U.S. captors and said guards at the camp in Cuba filmed his beatings... He told The Observer newspaper Sunday he had been repeatedly assaulted by Camp Delta's punishment squad, the Extreme Reaction Force, during his 22-month imprisonment. "They pepper-sprayed me in the face and I started vomiting," he was quoted as saying. "They pinned me down and attacked me, poking their fingers in my eyes, and forced my head into the toilet and flushed. "They tied me up like a beast and then they were kneeling on me, kicking and punching. "Finally they dragged me out of the cell in chains...and shaved my beard, my hair and my eyebrows," he said. "There was always this guy behind the squad, filming everything that happened," he added. Last week, two other British inmates wrote an open letter to President Bush, saying they were beaten and accusing U.S. military officials of deliberately misleading the public about interrogation techniques used at Guantanamo.

Now obviously, the beatings, dragging, and eye-gouging are clearly torture --but those guys sure crossed the line by giving him a swirly!