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It's Thursday, May 10, 2018 from Slate It's the GIST. I'm Mike Pesca. Today in the

Spiel and right here, right now, I will give the show over to one issue. Torture. It's

fun issue. Should we torture? No. Do we torture? We do. We have. It's not who we are, John

McCain says. Yet it shouldn't be, but it is. I actually don't mind one bit that some

of those architects of 9-11 were made to endure suffering. Fuck them. I'm upset that it's

Americans who are the ones who did the fucking. Torture is not about them. It is about us.

Anyway, that is in the Spiel. Here I want to talk about a real torture, which is the

torturous path. A lot of news organizations take to avoid plainly stating the facts. A

fact like shoving a tube up the bottom of a person and pumping hummus and raisins in is

to quote an enhanced technique. What essential and consulting is to giving some money to Michael

Cohen. And we did that, by the way, we did that rectal feeding taxpayer dollars there.

We bought the tube. We pureed the raisins. But in reporting on the Haspel hearings, you

heard constructions like this on ABC. Haspel once reportedly led a black site prison in Thailand

where terror suspects were water-borted critics call it torture. Four-week-old fish, which critics

call stinky. Here's NBC. On Capitol Hill today, the first woman to be nominated to lead the CIA,

Gina Haspel, based tough questions that her Senate confirmation hearing about her 30 years as a spy

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