• Mirshe@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    And they still do, don’t worry. We just can’t call it torture now, or do it within the US. There’s a long institutional memory that remembers when the CIA could literally launch an invasion of a foreign country and drag the executive branch into the conflict with it.

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      9 months ago

      We just can’t call it torture now, or do it within the US.

      The “Enhanced interrogation” was what they were told to stop. They kept “enhanced interrogating” people.