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Torturer's Apprentice, Cullen Murphy Jan/Feb 2012
... The first technique used by the Inquisition was ... torture by suspension ... it has been employed in the interrogation of prisoners in US custody ...
... The second technique was the rack ...
... The third technique involved water ... fabric plugged a victim's upturned mouth ... upon wich water was poured ...
... the (Bush) administration's threshold for when an act of torture begins was the point at which the inquisition stipulated that it must stop...
To clarify the last excerpt -- the Bush administration interrogation policy was remarkably similar to the Inquisition's interrogation policy. Their torture and our non-torture had similar (theoretical) stopping points.
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