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Getting Waterboarded

“Kaj Larsen investigates the practice of waterboarding, an interrogation practice allegedly used by the U.S. government. Is it a legitimate technique or torture?”

Current: Getting Waterboarded

Bruce Schneier, The War on the Unexpected:

“We’ve opened up a new front on the war on terror. It’s an attack on the unique, the unorthodox, the unexpected; it’s a war on different. If you act different, you might find yourself investigated, questioned, and even arrested — even if you did nothing wrong, and had no intention of doing anything wrong. The problem is a combination of citizen informants and a CYA attitude among police that results in a knee-jerk escalation of reported threats.”

Washington Post:

“”We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess.”

Zie en luister ook Fresh Air: TV Torture Changes Real Interrogation Techniques.

Naomi Klein: “Israel’s economy isn’t booming despite the political chaos that devours the headlines but because of it.”

BBC: “A Council of Europe investigator says he has evidence to prove the CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate “war on terror” suspects.”

Dick Marty’s second report on secret detentions and illegal transfers (532KB PDF)

Terry Jones: “No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch.”