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The Quiet American (2002 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2002 version of The Quiet American, in contrast to the 1958 version, depicted Greene's original ending and treatment of the principal American character, Pyle. Like the novel, the film illustrates Pyle's moral culpability in fostering intrigue within the South Vietnamese government. Going beyond Greene's original work, the film used a montage ending with superimposed images of American soldiers from the intervening decades of the Vietnam War.
The Quiet American (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The film was also dedicated to Ngo Dinh Diem, the U.S.-backed president of South Vietnam who took office shortly after the novel's publication. In a Hollywood still recovering from the blacklist of American communists, the film stirred a controversy,[1] as Graham Greene was furious that his anti-war message was excised,[1] and he disavowed the Mankiewicz film as a "propaganda film for America."
CIA tortured terror suspects in Lithuanian secret prison | Chris Djiongouros – Thoughts on Politics & Law
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This isn’t the first time Lithuania has been implicated in the US’s extraordinary anti-terror program. At a Council of Europe debate in 2005, it was named along with Poland and Romania, as the host of an illegal prison, but managed to escape direct accusation.
The Washington Independent » The Mysterious Eleventh Torture Technique: Prolonged Diapering?
C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists - NYTimes.com
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“It is too easy to contract out work that you don’t want to accept responsibility for,”
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Over the years, Blackwater has hired several former top C.I.A. officials, including Cofer Black, who ran the C.I.A. counterterrorism center immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Rice approved CIA waterboarding
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As national security adviser, Ms Rice consented to the harsh interrogation of al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah, the Senate Intelligence Committee found.
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Add Sticky NoteMemos released last week show that he and another key detainee were subjected to waterboarding 266 times.
- The CIA and the US govt are seriously sick fucks - on 2009-04-23
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