Lessons in How the CIA Works: Well, Gonna Have to Come Up With New Ways of Breaking Detainees

The CIA cuts off its right arm to survive political assaults: “With the release late Monday of guidelines for interrogating high-value detainees, the agency has provided — in its own words — the first detailed description of the step-by-step procedures used to systematically crush a detainee’s will to resist by eliciting stress, exhaustion and fear.”