>>The most influential legal thinker in the development of modern
American interrogation policy is not a behavioral psychologist,
international lawyer or counterinsurgency expert. Reading both Jane
Mayer's stunning "The Dark Side," and Philippe Sands's "Torture
Team," it quickly becomes plain that the prime mover of American
interrogation doctrine is none other than the star of Fox
television's "24," Jack Bauer.
This fictional counterterrorism agent—a man never at a loss for
something to do with an electrode—has his fingerprints all over U.S.
interrogation policy. As Sands and Mayer tell it, the lawyers
designing interrogation techniques cited Bauer more frequently than
the Constitution.<<
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