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Long before the degrading excesses of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, these police "interrogators" tried to forcibly extract "information" that Williams could not provide. Ultimately, he had to be rushed by ambulance from the motel to the county hospital for emergency care.
I've often thought that the justifiable moral response to what we're doing abroad has served to obscure what's happening here at home. I don't suggest a conflation. These are actually two sides of the same coin.
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