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Bush’s torture-by-bug smells like rat method in Orwell’s ’1984′

By Chris Steller | 04.17.09 | 1:44 pm

picture-41The Bush “torture memos” that Obama released yesterday owe a heavy literary debt to George Orwell’s novel “1984.” The most blatant rip-off is the government’s now-famous plan to sic insects on captive Abu Zubaydah:

Infamous Yoo torture memo is released

By Steve Perry | 04.02.08 | 9:41 am

Backstory: The Bush administration yesterday released the previously classified Justice Department memo from March 14, 2003 that served as the principal legal fig leaf for US torture practices in the handling of detainees in the war on terror. Composed by…