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From: D. Long	12/5/2005 12:34:36 PM
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I was flipping through the channels last night and caught the end of this Law and Order: Criminal Intent episode. It was one of the most blatantly political diatribes I have seen yet on TV. nbc.com It was a "Guantanamo torture" episode. Two interesting things: First, the detectives were "debating" the interrogation methods and the one guy noted that the detectives used similar techniques to elicit facts from suspects. Detective Goren responded "yeah, but we give them lawyers". So lawyers in the room apparently makes "torture" AOK. Second, under the writers assumptions about torture and specifically under international law torture treaties, the detective's questioning of the therapist was itself torture - it was inhumane, degrading, and caused severe mental suffering. They made the therapist believe they were "torturing" her patient, causing her distress. To add injury to insult, they did so without informing her that she was suspected of a crime, that she was under questioning for that crime, and she was denied access to a lawyer. If the writers of L&O:CI want to be self righteous and sanctimonious, the least they could do is be consistent with their own assumed sermon. I might write the network and complain, it was that bad. Derek

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