81 - Spy Games: How Life Imitates Art


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Dec 12 2014 56 mins  
Sleep deprivation, water boarding and forced feedings. These are just a few of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" aka torture methods that were highlighted in the CIA's report released this week. What's most troublesome about this report, is how eerily similar it is to some of Hollywood's biggest hits like Homeland, The Bourne trilogy and Scandal's B316. In this episode we ask if the quest to secure democracy by any means necessary has become our new normal? With guest Igor Volsky, Managing Editor of ThinkProgress.org