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There is a jarring disconnect between what I want my real-life intelligence officers to be doing versus what I want my fake TV intelligence officers to be doing.
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Diane Beaver, who served as State Judge Advocate on Guantanamo’s Joint Task Force in 2002–04, when it adopted harsh methods, told an interviewer that the show 24 had inspired many of the eighteen controversial interrogation techniques used on detainees, including waterboarding, sexual humiliation, and the terrorizing of prisoners with dogs. Jack Bauer, she said, “gave people lots of ideas,” adding: “We saw [24] on cable [and] it was hugely popular.
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― Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
― Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
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