https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/12/zero-dark-thirty-and-our-interrogation-legacy/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 01:00:06 -0400<![CDATA[“In the end, everybody breaks, bro — it’s biology,” says the CIA man in the movie, tactically but inaccurately, to the detainee undergoing “enhanced interrogation.” This too familiar term has lost its capacity for making us uneasy. America’s Vietnam failure was foretold when U.S. officials began calling air attacks on North Vietnam “protective reaction strikes,” a semantic obfuscation that revealed moral queasiness. “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity,” wrote George Orwell, who warned about governments resorting to “long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”]]>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 21:45:50 -0500<![CDATA[Erika Johnsen]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/12/zero-dark-thirty-and-our-interrogation-legacy-n99160