The musicians launched “a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction with torture that took place at the prison and other facilities and announced they were supporting an effort seeking the declassification of all secret government records pertaining to how music was utilized as an interrogation device,” the group said. The musicians include Trent Reznor and Tom Morello, whose rock bands Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against the Machine have already been linked to interrogations at the prison, according to previously released government records. “Guantanamo is known around the world as one of the places where human beings have been tortured  from waterboarding to stripping, hooding and forcing detainees into humiliating sexual acts playing music for 72 hours in a row at volumes just below that to shatter the eardrums,” said Morello. “Guantanamo may be Dick Cheney’s idea of America, but it’s not mine. The fact that rock bands, I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me,” he added. Retired general Robert Gard said he sympathized with the rock bands ”whose music was used without their knowledge as part of the Bush administration’s misguided policies.”

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