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Jack Bauer Tactics Used In Attempt to Establish Non-Existent Iraq-al Qaida Link

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. April 22, 2009.

Life-saving apparently wasn't always the goal of torture.

The Right's Jack Bauer Fantasy: 'Clip the Electrodes to His Balls and Turn on the Juice'

Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. February 5, 2009.

"24" helped brainwash Americans to accept the brutal, illegal actions of the Bush administration.

Come Saturday Morning ... the Torturers Strike Back

Phoenix Woman, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 24, 2009.

You didn't expect the jackbooted Jack-Bauer-worshiping sadists to go away quietly, did you?

Is Obama Leaving a Loophole for a 'Jack Bauer Exception' to His Torture Ban?

Ali Frick, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 23, 2009.

"I can say without exception or equivocation that the United States will not torture."

New Season of 24 Allows Right-Wingers to Fall In Love with Torture All Over Again

Ryan Powers, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 13, 2009.

Bauer's fictional defense of torture and his fictional claims of its effectiveness are having very real consequences.