Marjorie Cohn: The United States and Torture from bbc long reads news Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 35 min 40 sec ✓ Published: 01-Apr-2012
Description: Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its war on terror. What we lack, however, is a larger
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