Majid wasn’t tortured for information. He wasn’t tortured for names or account numbers. He’d long ago surrendered, willingly, all he knew. Majid Khan was tortured for behavior control. Whatever that behavior was. He was tortured when he complied and when he resisted. He was tortured for asserting any act of will. The point, if by the end there was a point beyond sating the power lust of his torturers, was to annihilate his personality, his own sense of himself. But here the CIA failed. More

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