America’s
“enhanced interrogation” techniques have a grotesque
provenance: “Verschärfte Vernehmung, enhanced or
intensified interrogation, was the exact term innovated by the
Gestapo to describe what became known as the ‘third degree.’
It left no marks. It included hypothermia, stress positions
and long-time sleep deprivation.” - The Sunday Times of
London - Andrew Sullivan
Goss
said waterboarding falls into "an area of what I would call professional
interrogation techniques."
Porter J. Goss at Mexico City (1963) nightclub with members
of the CIA’s secret assassination squad known as “Operation
Forty."