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The unfinished business of America's secret history of torture

Chris Hedges: America’s Disappeared - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig: "It will take time—a lot of time; the crimes committed by Bianco and the two former officers sent to prison this month are nearly four decades old. If it does not happen, then we will continue to descend into a terrifying, dystopian police state where our guards will, on a whim, haul us out of our cells to an amusement park and make us ride, numb and bewildered, on the kiddie train, before the next round of torture."

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