Losing Their Religion: CIA Faces the Music On Gitmo

Obama’s proposal to shutter the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison has got unexpected support from musicians

Obama’s proposal to shutter the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison has got unexpected support from musicians, including Pearl Jam and REM. It has emerged that music was used to torture detainees, by pumping up the volume. “The US government turned a jukebox into an instrument of torture,” said Thomas Blanton of National Security Archive, an independent  research institute. But CIA spokesperson George Little says music is used only for security, “not for punitive purposes — and at levels far below a live rock band”.