Un recorrido personal por Santiago de Chile, 35 años después del golpe de Estado del general Pinochet. Recuerdos de un tiempo en el que la solidaridad de seres anónimos ratificó la esperanza en el ser humano. Articulo completo en El País:

Whatever It Takes

The politics of the man behind “24.”

by Jane Mayer, February 19, 2007

The office desk of Joel Surnow—the co-creator and executive producer of “24,” the popular counterterrorism drama on Fox—faces a wall dominated by an American flag in a glass case. A small label reveals that the flag once flew over Baghdad, after the American invasion of Iraq, in 2003. A few years ago, Surnow received it as a gift from an Army regiment stationed in Iraq; the soldiers had shared a collection of “24” DVDs, he told me, until it was destroyed by an enemy bomb. “The military loves our show,” he said recently.

The full article in the New Yorker was published on Feb. 19, 2007 [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_mayer]

A video discussion of “24″ and torture is posted on You Tube

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On April 27, 2008, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke with CBS’s 60 Minutes’ reporter Lesley Stahl, arguing that the torture didn’t really fit the 8th Amendment’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishment.”

STAHL: If someone’s in custody, as in Abu Ghraib, and they are brutalized, by a law enforcement person — if you listen to the expression “cruel and unusual punishment,” doesn’t that apply?

SCALIA: No. To the contrary. You think — Has anybody ever referred to torture as punishment? I don’t think so.

STAHL: Well I think if you’re in custody, and you have a policeman who’s taken you into custody–

SCALIA: And you say he’s punishing you? What’s he punishing you for? … When he’s hurting you in order to get information from you, you wouldn’t say he’s punishing you. What is he punishing you for?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3MkfAtKmI