"smacky-face"

Grant Barrett gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG
Thu Mar 6 03:50:19 UTC 2003


I wonder if there's authoritarian parent-like role-playing taking
place, in which the interrogation subjects are infantilized...

Le Wednesday, 5 Mar 2003, à 22:01 America/New_York, Gerald Cohen a
écrit :
>   I didn't ever expect to find cutesy talk in connection with
> macho-type activity, but an example turns up in the Wall Street
> Journal...
>     'U.S. officials overseeing interrogations of captures al Qaeda
> forces at Bagram and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba can even
> authorize "a little bit of smacky-face," a U.S. intelligence official
> says.  "Some al Qaeda just need some extra encouragement," the
> official says." ...'



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