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last book review of 2022...
Jan. 4th, 2023 04:53 pmDebriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon
(free to read on archive.org)
In the last ~20 years of focusing on nonfiction books, I've really enjoyed reading about interrogators. (A part of it is due to RPing as one or two back in the day, along with other cough pertinent interests cough, but then another large chunk is just a morbid fascination of the dark power plays that goes on. it's very intimate, as pain is, even with its impact on world news.)
Nixon is a CIA agent who worked the Iraq circles way back in the early 00's, and was one of the first dudes to interrogate Hussein.
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(free to read on archive.org)
In the last ~20 years of focusing on nonfiction books, I've really enjoyed reading about interrogators. (A part of it is due to RPing as one or two back in the day, along with other cough pertinent interests cough, but then another large chunk is just a morbid fascination of the dark power plays that goes on. it's very intimate, as pain is, even with its impact on world news.)
Nixon is a CIA agent who worked the Iraq circles way back in the early 00's, and was one of the first dudes to interrogate Hussein.
( Read more... )
