The frequent flyer program is a controversial technique used by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba.
Guantanamo guards were ordered to discontinue the use of the technique in March 2004, although the practice persisted until at least later that year.
[1] Major David Frakt, USAF, defense counsel to a recipient of the program, Mohamed Jawad, said:No one actually knows the full scope of the abuses at Guantanamo [and that] all of these allegedly comprehensive investigations were whitewashed.
[1]In August 2008, in testimony at Jawad's Guantanamo military commission trial, US Army officers confirmed the existence of the frequent flyer program.
[1] In May 2012, Ramzi Kassem, a lawyer for detainee Shaker Aamer, said his client alleges the frequent flyer program was still being used as a punishment technique in the isolation block known as Camp Five Echo.