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January 20, 2010
The Stuff We Could Teach Jack Bauer
The New York Times
by Clyde Haberman
With the new season of Fox's 24 set in NYC, the Times columnist suggests that fictional agent Jack Bauer could employ some novel, possibly more effective means of breaking the bad guys.
We need new techniques — New York techniques. Sit a terror suspect next to a subway rider whose iPod is turned up so high that it produces a maddening buzz. Or make him watch the repulsive health department commercials that show soda turning into globs of fat. Better yet, force him to watch the Knicks play the Nets. That’ll get him to talk.
Do such tactics amount to torture? Ask any New Yorker who has endured them.
NoLandGrab: The Knicks are just innocent bystanders.
Posted by eric at January 20, 2010 10:44 AM