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...Marriott, the aptly named Sidelines, where his old pal Dean (Ben Affleck, shaggy as a bear) tends bar. Dean believes Xanax is the cure for everything, including the common cold. Their conversations head in absurd directions - Dean thinks Joel should hire a gigolo to seduce Suzie so he can sleep with the alluring Cindy guilt-free, a suggestion that ultimately does more damage than Cindy does - but at the same time have a real naturalism. Imagine Pulp Fiction's Jules and Vincent sitting at the Marriott bar with no mission more pressing than peeling off a woman's sweatpants...
...Under the Bush Administration's 2007 CIA interrogation guidance, certain detainees could be subjected to six enhanced interrogation techniques: dietary manipulation, extended sleep deprivation, facial hold, attention grasp, abdominal slap and facial slap. Sleep deprivation was achieved by using "physical restraints to prevent the detainee from falling asleep"; detainees were forced to wear an adult diaper during the process...
...practice, detainees were shackled in a standing position, with their hands positioned below their chins and above their hearts, preventing sleep. If the detainee collapsed, or developed swelling in the legs, the detainee would be reshackled in a sitting position that would similarly prevent sleep. The treatment could last up to 96 hours, or longer with specific authorization from the Justice Department. Two other recently declassified memos show that one unnamed detainee received two one-day extensions to a course of sleep deprivation in November 2007, for a total of six days of consecutive sleep deprivation...
...Elisa Massimino, a lobbyist for Human Rights First, who worked with McCain in 2006 on the Military Commissions Act, says she remembers the Senator often discussing sleep deprivation as a form of illegal abuse. "I would be very surprised if at that point in time Senator McCain and others would not have raised objections to prolonged sleep deprivation," said Massimino. "He talked about Orson Swindle...
...Once on the ground, they held passengers captive, threatened them with guns and murdered one hostage, dumping his body onto the tarmac. Nonetheless, after the captives were rescued, one of them reportedly later said of his captors, "They weren't bad people; they let me eat, they let me sleep, they gave me my life...