You know that matters have gotten out of hand when, as we learned this week, American instructors at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, gave classes on torture techniques used by the Communists to extract false testimony from American prisoners during the Korean War.
This level of attention to detail is crucial, especially when trying to extract accurate testimonies from those who, perhaps due to cultural or traumatic influences, maintain a different sense of truth.
Supposedly based on testimony recorded by jurists from confessions extracted under torture (testimony that was remarkably similar all over Europe), these prints serve to appal and excite, with just enough macabre excess to render the subjects ridiculous and deflect viewers from the real gravity of what is happening.
Urged on by a number of families of people killed in the attacks, the Kean commission has used a mix of moral and political leverage to extract presidential communications and testimony.
Surely the sobbing of a human creature in extremis is testimony not worth having, as well as testimony extracted by the most contemptible means?
Calabria Ora also ran an interview with the Pesce family's lawyer, who claimed that Cerreti had "extracted" Pesce's testimony by threatening to cut off access to her children.
This week a Mexican newspaper printed extracts from testimony that he gave earlier to the airline's lawyers.
Mr. Jerejian seemed to extract at least some of the testimony he wanted the jury to hear.
And the report expresses due skepticism of testimonies extracted through abuse and torture including, possibly, those of El Cabo Gil's companions of which the GIEI discovered and reported many instances.
And the report expresses due skepticism of testimonies extracted through abuse and torture — including, possibly, those of El Cabo Gil's companions — of which the GIEI discovered and reported many instances.
