"We lambs were forbidden to lie, but the interrogator could tell all the lies he felt like. Those articles of law did not apply to him. We had even lost the yardstick with which to guage: what does he get for lying? He could confront us with as many documents as he chose, bearing the forged signatures of our kinfolk and friends–and it would be just a skillful interrogation technique." -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
[This description of Soviet interrogation practices is disturbingly similar to what too many police officers or FBI agents are allowed to do here. This is something that we should be looking to reign in, rather than expand.]
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