[Dean's World] Andrew Cory: They didn't waterboard during World War 2.

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Posted by Andrew Cory:
They didn't waterboard during World War 2.
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1191776698.shtml


     When about two dozen veterans got together yesterday for the first
     time since the 1940s, many of the proud men lamented the chasm
     between the way they conducted interrogations during the war and
     the harsh measures used today in questioning terrorism suspects.

     Back then, they and their commanders wrestled with the morality of
     bugging prisoners' cells with listening devices. They felt bad
     about censoring letters. They took prisoners out for steak dinners
     to soften them up. They played games with them.

     "We got more information out of a German general with a game of
     chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture," said
     Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play
     chess in Germany with Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess.

   But times are more dangerous today, naturally...