From: Chuck Kleinhans (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 16:23:41 PST
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T) wrote:
> It;s been said (if I recall correctly by a general critical of such
> tactics), that many of the soldiers learned some of their methods
> from the TV show '24'
>
>
From
http://www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue/editorial/index.html
In summer 2007 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, at a
Canadian meeting of international jurists, indicated he was a big fan
of the TV drama 24.
"'Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles. ... He saved hundreds of thousands of
lives,' Judge Scalia said. Then, recalling Season 2, where the
agent's rough interrogation tactics saved California from a terrorist
nuke, the Supreme Court judge etched a line in the sand. 'Are you
going to convict Jack Bauer?' Judge Scalia challenged his fellow
judges. 'Say that criminal law is against him? 'You have the right to
a jury trial?' Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don't think
so. …'"
"During a break from the panel, Judge Scalia specifically mentioned
the segment in Season 2 … 'There's a great scene where he told a guy
that he was going to have his family killed,' Judge Scalia said.
'They had it on closed circuit television - and it was all
staged. ... They really didn't kill the family.'"
CHUCK KLEINHANS
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