{"id":222,"date":"2004-05-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=222"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:40:56","slug":"torture-is-information-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Torture is &quot;Information Technology&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure many people, with tongue partially in cheek, might suggest the two are equivalent, but the Army is serious about it. Using a loose definition, I suppose torture is a form of &#8220;technology&#8221; used to extract &#8220;information&#8221;.  And in the miiitary world of doublespeak, it&#8217;s probably not any more outrageous than many other common euphemisms and obfuscations.  But it&#8217;s still a little disturbing to read stories like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/careertopics\/careers\/consulting\/story\/0,10801,93450p2,00.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">this one<\/a> about the Army hiring &#8220;interrogators&#8221; under IT services contracts, especially considering  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guerrillanews.com\/human_rights\/doc4466.html\" Target=\"Offsite\">reports<\/a> that some of these contractors have been involved in some of the worst cases of abuse, and not subject to prosecution because of their non-military status, including a contractor accused of raping a teenage prisoner but facing no criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure many people, with tongue partially in cheek, might suggest the two are equivalent, but the Army is serious about it. Using a loose definition, I suppose torture is a form of &#8220;technology&#8221; used to extract &#8220;information&#8221;. And in the miiitary world of doublespeak, it&#8217;s probably not any more outrageous than many other common&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=222\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Torture is &quot;Information Technology&quot;?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-3A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}