August 08, 2007

• Dear New Yorker While reading a story about torture and abuse of basic human rights, it's REALLY FUCKED UP to see cartoons placed in said article. Seriously, does anyone preview this stuff before it hits the web? WTF
• Thanks for this HW. I recently read an interesting Spiegel feature on the CIA renditions (auf Englisch).
• Rorschach and Awe: America's coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical "black site" operation.
• Yeah, amen Argh. Thanks very much for posting this, HW. If someone had suggested I'd read a 9-page New Yorker article at 8AM, I'd say they were crazy. And yet I sure did. Makes me want to read the book I have about Guantanamo.
• rubbish! everyone knows that the CIA is only involved in internet startups these days.
• Amen. Scar-y, get informed for both of us. I'm to the point I want to stick my head in the sand and not know anymore. As a product of the flower child era, I keep thinking of all our past high and fine sensibilities....
• Fascinating, xenmate. Worth an FPP.
• I second the notion to make xenmate's link an FPP. Facebook users note: you can deactivate your Facebook account, but you can never purge it. What's there is there, forever. Like a bad tattoo.
• Interview with the author.
• American Psychological Association Rejects Blanket Ban on Participation in Interrogation of U.S. Detainees
• C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations
• The beginning of this article sheds some light on what was probably on those tapes.
• "I dunno what happened -- all that's on these tapes are episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond... "Some may think that's torture..."
• CIA's ambitious post-9/11 spy plan crumbles