SERE was a program designed to train military personnel captured as prisoners to survive torture during interrogation if they were to be captured by an enemy. Military personnel endured a program of beatings, starvation, stress positions, were stripped naked, and thrown in small cages for days (United States Congress, 2008). SERE was initially designed to train members of the U.S. military to resist enhanced interrogation techniques if they were captured and tortured, in order to avoid false confessions. However, in 2002, Bruce Jessen, a SERE psychologist, began using SERE interrogation tactics against Guantanamo detainees (United States Congress,