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Dämmerung muses on the rationale of government torture practices
You may remember that the US Senate intelligence committee released a report on secret CIA torture practices last year. It spanned hundreds of pages and concerned the seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks. The felling of the World Trade Center, and the Bush-era invasion of Iraq, was presumably used as justification for the CIA subjecting people to sleep deprivation for up to 180 hours, rectal feeding, and standing on broken limbs for hours at a time. Prepare to be made uncomfortable. These inhumane practices were carried out in the hope that the captives would divulge intelligence they were believed to…