Nobody ever expects the Inquisition in America. But an American/Brit lawyer for over 50 Guantanamo prisoners, Clive Stafford Smith, says the U.S. now uses Spanish Inquisition methods like strappado (hanging by the wrists) and reverse strappado (behind the back, which dislocates the shoulders). His new book is, on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/3x9l4c
You can stream an interview which aired this morning on Boulder's www.kgnu.org:
http://kgnu.org/cgi-bin/play.m3u?show=Metro&date=2007-10-18
This is an automatically archived program, so you'll want to skip past the BBC News and the membership pledge rap to 15:45 into the show for the interview. The part about the inquisition history is 37:45 in.
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