{"id":198816,"date":"2007-10-07T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/the-greatest-generation-condemns-the-torture-generation\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T04:44:00","slug":"the-greatest-generation-condemns-the-torture-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/10\/07\/the-greatest-generation-condemns-the-torture-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Generation Condemns the Torture Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep in mind that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/10\/05\/AR2007100502492.html\">these are the guys who interrogated, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">actually got useful information out of<\/span>, captured senior Axis figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,&#8221; said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler&#8217;s deputy, Rudolf Hess.<\/p>\n<p>Blunt criticism of modern enemy interrogations was a common refrain at the ceremonies held beside the Potomac River near Alexandria. Across the river, President Bush defended his administration&#8217;s methods of detaining and questioning terrorism suspects during an Oval Office appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They to a man condemned the tactics espoused by Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&trade;<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep in mind that these are the guys who interrogated, and actually got useful information out of, captured senior Axis figures. &#8220;We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,&#8221; said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligence","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}