"Before 9/11, prime-time television showed fewer than four scenes of torture per year; after 9/11, it showed more than a hundred. TV shows like 24 made it look as if torture works. At one point the hero of 24, Jack Bauer, resigns from his counterterrorism unit before he illegally tortures someone, to make sure the unit won’t be held responsible. Sometimes Daniel Boone has to break the rules but he will always cover his bosses’ collective ass. (..) American society became entangled with torture"
