Reader Response
June, 2002
The Debate on TortureJames R. Petersen was right to be appalled at our indifference to published reports that the FBI is contemplating harsher interrogations ("Thinking About Torture," The Playboy Forum, March). In January 60 Minutes interviewed a variety of so-called experts on the topic. A French general who had tortured detainees in the Fifties during the French-Algerian war claimed that his techniques (electricity to the ears, hands and testicles, a water-soaked towel wrapped aroun...
