In the same period, public opposition to, for example, naked chaining in cold rooms, fell from 79% to 51%.

In Zegart’s August 2012 national poll, that number was up by 14%. Among others, as Amy Zegart notes in yesterday’s Times, in 2007, 27% of Americans surveyed said the United States should torture prisoners captured in the war against terrorism. But I do suspect I’m in a minority for a variety of reasons. I doubt I’m alone in the world in my metaphorical interpretation of that scene. At least 8 of these detainees were, by anyone’s definition of the term, tortured to death. custody, including 34 whose deaths DOD reported as homicides. They included nearly 100 detainees who died in U.S. personnel and more than 460 U.S.-held detainees. military and civilian personnel were credibly alleged to have abused or killed detainees – cases involving more than 600 U.S. Back in 2006, when my colleagues and I at Human Rights First did the numbers (thanks in no small measure to the volumes of the government’s own documents released under FOIA), there had been more than 330 cases in which U.S. And for me it very nicely captured the absurd predictability of one of the many things the American experiment with torture wrought. It is, in the cinematic sensibility of this film, subtle.

The feeding is conducted beneath a large handwritten sign that says, “Do not feed the monkeys.” The interaction ends in frustration for the interrogator when one of the monkeys successfully swipes the entire cone. The soldiers on the base have been keeping a cage of small monkeys (for unexplained reasons), and the scene opens with the lead interrogator – the man shown as directing the torture of a detainee in the scenes before – standing before the monkey cage and feeding them small bits of his ice cream cone. military base in Afghanistan to interrogate their next detainees. Perhaps my favorite scene in the film Zero Dark Thirty comes relatively early on, when the two CIA interrogators around whom the early film revolves arrive at a U.S.

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