Buried in a Washington Post article about former Iraqi interrogator Tony Lagouranis is a snippet on how to effectively torture a prisoner of war:
Not long ago in Iraq, he felt “absolute power,” he said, over men kept in cages. Lagouranis had forced a grandfather to kneel all night in the cold and bombarded others in metal shipping containers with the tape of the self-help parody “Feel This Book: An Essential Guide to Self-Empowerment, Spiritual Supremacy, and Sexual Satisfaction,” by comedians Ben Stiller and Janeane Garofalo. (”They hated it,” Lagouranis recalled. “Like, ‘Please! Just stop that voice!’ “)
–Laura Blumenfield, “The Tortured Lives of Interrogators”, Washington Post, June 4, 2007




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