Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

TORTURED TV
Human Rights First has mounted a campaign to challenge a growing and troublesome trend: TV shows like "24," "Lost" and "Law and Order" often depict torture as an effective and even heroic tool for interrogating suspects. The impact is far from fictional: U.S. soldiers, under pressure to get information but confronted with conflicting rules of interrogation, have imitated the gruesome techniques they see on TV.

HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING:

Human Rights First has arranged a series of meetings for the Dean of West Point and three seasoned Army and FBI interrogators with prominent TV producers and writers.

The Executive Producer of "24" recently announced that the show would "tone down" its use of torture. And the star of the show, Kiefer Sutherland, said that he would work with the Army to train soldiers.

They are in production on a training film that shows, through TV clips and interviews with experienced interrogators, that the methods you see on TV would not work in the field.

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