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Your One-Stop Shop for Non-Torturous Interrogations

By | 06.09.10 | 9:27 am

Want to learn how Jack Bauer ought to get terrorists to divulge information against their interests? Check out Interrogations Central, a website launched last week by “Matthew Alexander,” a pseudonymous interrogator whose non-torturous interrogations contributed to the successful hunting and killing of the Iraq-based terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in More…

Jack Bauer Does Not Exist, People

By | 03.11.10 | 9:45 am

One more thing about former MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller and her charges about being kept in the dark by the U.S. on torture. According to the Independent, Dame Eliza said that the Bush administration grew enamored of torture with the aid of a certain television show…

Panetta Hearing: You Don’t Need to Torture in the ‘Ticking Bomb’ Case

By | 02.05.09 | 3:35 pm

CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta took on a right-wing myth head on, saying that even in the hypothetical “ticking bomb case” — OMG there’s a bomb hidden in Times Square that this detainee knows about we better waterboard him or everyone will die GET ME JACK BAUER — you shouldn’t torture More…