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Torture as the Greatest Boondoggle – Mises Speech

By Jim on March 26, 2018

When someone asked me to name the biggest U.S. government boondoggle I had seen, I leaped at the chance to flog torture. From my Friday presentation to the Mises Institute conference –

http://jimbovard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/JPB-Torture-answer-Mises-3-23-2018-My-Movie.mp4

 

Here’s a link to many of the articles I have written on torture since 9/11.

 

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