This Sunday on the History Channel: The Dark Art of Interrogation...

[Junkdrawer]

And just before Bush announces his Supreme Court Pick (Alberto Gonzalez???)..

Today, espionage, terror, and psychological warfare collide at specially-designed prisons like Guantanamo Bay, where masters of information-gathering practice the age-old art of interrogation. After 9/11, the US and other countries initiated a new rationale about use of elaborate psychological manipulation to ward off world terrorism.

Enter that shadowy world with former CIA Agent Keith Hall, who defends his brutal interrogation of a Lebanese terrorist suspect.

Meet Michael Koubi, an Israeli interrogator whose theatrics and deception produce exceptional results.

Special Forces operative Bill Cowan explains how battlefield interrogations in Vietnam helped save lives, and US POWs describe the hell they endured. Former Afghan and Pakistani occupants of Camp X-Ray and Palestinian terrorist suspects also offer firsthand accounts.

Best-selling author Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down) guides us through a morally gray world the government would rather you not enter.

http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/series_showcase.jsp?EGrpType=Series&Id=15346457&NetwCode=THC

How low can we go. How low can we go. How low can we go.

[AngryAmish]

1. Read "Bravo Two Zero" or "Gulag Archipelago"

BTZ was a story of a SAS guy who got tortured in Abu Grahib during Gulf War I. Gulag Archipelago describes how confessions were obtained in Stalin's Soviet Union. You hear many echos nowadays.

[thebigidea]

2. masters of information gathering? Fumbling sadists, more like it.

Bill Cowan is a dumbass FOX drone who I don't think has been correct ONCE in any of his predictions or punditry.

[Junkdrawer]

3. It's clearly an apology for torture dressed up as a documentary...

And during the 90s, The History Channel used to be such a relief from dumbed down, mainstream fare.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. Until just 4-5 years ago...

Ancient history, Animals, Science. Many hours camped in front of the tube with my boys. They had no idea they were learning something! :)


Now it's all monster bikes and war.

:(

[Junkdrawer]

5. Timing seems particularly fortuitous now, huh?

:think: