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  • Cheneyism provided the perfect cover for flat-out nonsense, but Season Eight of 24 arrives conspicuously in the era of Obama — in what we hopefully, wistfully perhaps, think of as the post-torture era.

    The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer 2010

  • Cheneyism provided the perfect cover for flat-out nonsense, but Season Eight of 24 arrives conspicuously in the era of Obama — in what we hopefully, wistfully perhaps, think of as the post-torture era.

    The Clock is Ticking for Jack Bauer 2010

  • Cheney misconstrues this point and says interrogators were "too lenient" with the men that returned to the battlefield post-torture.

    Allison Kilkenny: Dispatches from the Dark Side 2009

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'The CIA\'s post-torture profits | Tim Shorrock'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'The CIA report, however, is the official word on the Bush-Cheney "war on terror".

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: The CIA's post-torture profits | Tim Shorrock 2009

  • He coined the phrase "learned helplessness" to describe the post-torture condition of the animals.

    Bryant Welch: Fort Hood: A Harbinger of Things to Come? 2009

  • Funny story I heard about "Marathon Man;" Dustin Hoffman stayed up for two days or something like that so he would look physically exhausted during some of the post-torture scenes.

    More about those movie quotes. Ann Althouse 2005

  • In the extremely unlikely event that anyone at Channel 45 is reading this, may I strongly suggest saving the pledge requests for the post-torture bits.

    I feel very Left mariness 2004

  • Two Zimbabwean journalists who were allegedly tortured in detention by the military have had their bail conditions eased on their return home to face trial after post-torture treatment abroad.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • There are some fantastic set-piece sequences around crowded apartment blocks and abandoned ship-fitters, and a genuinely brilliant section where a naked, post-torture Kane and Lynch make a bid for freedom.

    Pocket-lint 2010

  • What struck me when I stumbled on that very early post-torture scene was how much more effective it is in highlighting the fact that you're fighting against evil than, say, having a scene in which you walk through an airport slaughtering civilians.

    SPOnG.com 2010

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