Ok. Like I've said here before, I'm slowly working up the schwerpunkt to do a paper on torture. The basis for it is a comparison of "extreme techniques" in interrogation by the U.S. in Iraq and the NKVD during the Great Terror. The "torture table", as I've nicknamed it, is the central piece to establish the comparison. It has some empty cells yet.
But apparently not for long. Every time I turn around new evidence that we used similar methods crops up. One of the blanks was the incarceration of family members to intimidate those under question. Tonight there was a news report on it and on a secret U.S. army unit charged with carrying out the needed abductions.
I don't relish having such good evidence for my work.
Damnit. Damnit. Damnit.
- Tracy Lightcap
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