Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine

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- Our torture policy has deeper roots in Fox television than the Constitution.
- Diane Beaver, the staff judge advocate general who gave legal approval to 18 controversial new interrogation techniques including water-boarding, sexual humiliation, and terrorizing prisoners with dogs, told Sands that Bauer "gave people lots of ideas."
- Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking in Canada last summer, shows a gift for this casual toggling between television and the Constitution. "Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. … He saved hundreds of thousands of lives," Scalia said. "Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?"
- Jack Bauer encounters a "ticking time-bomb" an average of 12 times per season.
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