I’ve mentioned a couple times now innocent people being captured and tortured by the CIA. The number of innocent people detained by the CIA is, at least, 26. That doesn’t sound terribly bad, but it has to be remembered that the CIA detained and held “enhanced interrogations” on 115 suspected terrorists. Twenty-six is nearly a fifth of the terrorists they captured, but somehow, it gets worse. Some of the suspected terrorists were informants for the US government. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on torture has details of one being forced to stand for 24 hours straight before the CIA realized their mistake. There was also an innocent man who was deprived of sleep for 66 hours before they realized he might not be who they thought he
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The first source is the CIA sending peeps on TV to perpetuate the lie that torture works. This influences culture of course, and it’s never quite wriggled back out of culture. Torture being an effective means of gathering info in fiction is so prominent that it’s actually praised as “good writing” when torture doesn’t work, because of how overused it is in fiction. An optimist would like to think that this couldn’t affect anyone who has a say in this sort of thing, but unfortunately, this is a luxury we simply do not have. In an interview, late Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia cited the television show 24 as an example of torture working. "There's a great scene where he told a guy that he was going to have his family killed," Judge Scalia said, "They had it on closed circuit television - and it was all staged. ... They really didn't kill the family." This is a genuine quote, from a genuine Supreme Court justice who was genuinely justifying torture using a fictional event involving fictional characters on a fictional television show (The
The first source is the CIA sending peeps on TV to perpetuate the lie that torture works. This influences culture of course, and it’s never quite wriggled back out of culture. Torture being an effective means of gathering info in fiction is so prominent that it’s actually praised as “good writing” when torture doesn’t work, because of how overused it is in fiction. An optimist would like to think that this couldn’t affect anyone who has a say in this sort of thing, but unfortunately, this is a luxury we simply do not have. In an interview, late Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia cited the television show 24 as an example of torture working. "There's a great scene where he told a guy that he was going to have his family killed," Judge Scalia said, "They had it on closed circuit television - and it was all staged. ... They really didn't kill the family." This is a genuine quote, from a genuine Supreme Court justice who was genuinely justifying torture using a fictional event involving fictional characters on a fictional television show (The