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When he gives tours, Mr. Medina tells students to "imagine walking home from school, and people have taken the things you care about and make you change your name, your religion and your language". He spares them the more brutal information, such as how girls and unmarried women were pulled from their families and forced to sleep in tight quarters until they were married off.
The widespread perception of U.S. companies elbowing out local competition, practicing what one German politician called "brutal information capitalism," doesn't help the American cause.
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Under J. Edgar Hoover's "top echelon" program, the two brutal criminals gave information that helped convict three generations of a New England crime family.
Forced evictions of squatting farming families (desalojos as they are called) are also quite common and quite brutal (for more information, see my previous blog).
The information was brutal at times.
Ministers are coming under pressure to order a fresh public inquiry into British involvement in US torture after the Senate's report on the CIA's brutal methods of extracting information.
Embarrassed and frustrated by the early weeks of the health insurance exchange's rollout, Cartwright is still convinced that the law will work, so he is fighting back with information and brutal honesty.
It was a brutal conflict with little information getting through to troops on the ground, some of whom did not know that the Chinese military had entered the war alongside North Korea.
The agency's rebuttal is the most detailed defense that the CIA has assembled to date of one of the more controversial programs in its history, one that employed simulated drowning and other brutal measures to get information from al-Qaeda captives before the agency was ordered to close its secret prisons in 2009.
Now that the efficacy of traditional methods to elicit cooperation is being recognized in cases like Abdulmutallah's and Zazi's, one question stands out: Why was the Bush Administration so attracted to, and intently focused upon, the use of brutal methods for obtaining information?
Mark Danner, a journalist who has written extensively about the covert program for The New York Review of Books, said the news reports had fed the idea that brutal interrogations could instantly glean information about terrorist plans.
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