[news] US Military To "Jack Bauer": Cut Out the Torture Scenes...or Else!

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

In the hugely popular television series **24**, federal agent Jack Bauer always gets his man, even if he has to play a little rough. Suffocating, electrocuting or drugging a suspect are all in a day's work...The **US military** has appealed to the producers of 24 to tone down the torture scenes because of the impact they are having both on troops in the field and America's reputation abroad...(F)orget that the White House has authorised interrogation techniques that some classify as torture, that damned Jack Bauer is giving us a bad name.

  


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