{"id":332,"date":"2007-08-18T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/torture-radio-interview-now-online\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T08:39:59","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:39:59","slug":"torture-radio-interview-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/torture-radio-interview-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture Radio Interview Now Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestressblog.com\/\">Scott Horton<\/a><\/strong> of Antiwar.com interviewed me on Thursday on the latest developments on the torture scandal.\u00a0 As always, Scott&#8217;s optimism is downright contagious.<\/p>\n<p>You can click onto\u00a0the MP3 of the interview <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/james-bovard-4\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>We did the interview just before the Padilla jury verdict was announced.\u00a0\u00a0 I reckon the interview would have been more caustic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> did a great series of articles last week on the Padilla case, detailing how the\u00a0feds effectively Zombified Padilla\u00a0via years of severe abuse.\u00a0 Jane Mayer nailed the story as well in the New Yorker.\u00a0 But most of the media ignored the barbaric means the government used to crush the defendant before the trial.<\/p>\n<p>I will be curious to see the analyses of how the Padilla\u00a0trial went down, and\u00a0how much evidence of torture the jurors actually saw. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Horton of Antiwar.com interviewed me on Thursday on the latest developments on the torture scandal.\u00a0 As always, Scott&#8217;s optimism is downright contagious. 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