I spent some time this week reading old CIA interrogation manuals (which openly discuss "coercive" techniques), for personal background on the current debates.

I spent some time this week reading old CIA interrogation manuals (which openly discuss "coercive" techniques), for personal background on the current debates. Anyway, the CIA interrogation manual for the wars in Central America in the 80s was titled "Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual", which struck me as perfectly Orwellian from a couple of directions.