Torture
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Sep 11, 2026
Ben CarterHOST
On the surface, that looks overwhelming, but the conditions matter.
Ben CarterHOST
Torture was used against Templars in France.
Ben CarterHOST
Threat of torture, prison conditions, repeated questioning, and fear of death shaped the testimony.
Ben CarterHOST
Medieval inquisitorial procedure treated the confession as powerful evidence, but coercion could produce conformity, especially when questions already contained the expected story.
Jenny CampbellHOST
Congress passed the Patriot Act by 357-66 in the House and 98-1 in the Senate.
Jenny CampbellHOST
a new federal department was created the department of homeland security merging twenty-two agencies and housing the newly established immigration and customs enforcement ice which has become the spearhead of trump's police state operations Torture became a standard practice at secret CIA prisons around the world, as well as the main detention centre at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
Jenny CampbellHOST
Justice Department memos justified waterboarding prisoners in the name of preventing, quote, another 9-11, end quote.
Jenny CampbellHOST
The Democratic Party was a full participant in the War on Terror, repeatedly voting to fund Bush's wars, then continuing and expanding them under Obama, who launched the US-NATO bombing of Libya and US-backed wars in Syria and Yemen.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
And I think when Cheney died, Democrats still were like, oh, Mr.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
Torture, how terrible.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
And of course, that's true.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
That's all that's all part of his record.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
And I think when Cheney died, Democrats still were like, oh, Mr.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
Torture, how terrible.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
And of course, that's true.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
That's all that's all part of his record.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
And I think when Cheney died, Democrats still were like, oh, Mr.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
Torture, how terrible.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
And of course, that's true.
Jacob WeisbergGUEST
That's all that's all part of his record.
Mary Louise KellyMODERATOR
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded one hundred eighty-three times in March 2003.
Mary Louise KellyMODERATOR
We were debating in our newsroom, and I'm sure many others, what do we call this? Enhanced interrogation? Torture? What can we say? Take us-- By the time you show up at the Pentagon in 2009, the courts have weighed in on some of this.
Jeh JohnsonGUEST
Yeah.
Mary Louise KellyMODERATOR
Did you find the legal architecture you were inheriting that Judge Gonzales and others helped build, did you find it legally sound?
Brandon BudaHOST
And I'm Brandon Buda.
Brandon BudaHOST
In today's episode, we're looking at The Isle of the Torturers by Clark Ashton Smith, a perennial favorite of ours here at Clay Temple Media.
Brandon BudaHOST
This story was published in Weird Tales magazine in 1933.
Brandon BudaHOST
This story is going to slot into our a theme for the year in which we're looking at interwar stories in weird tales and adjacent magazines.
Brandon BudaHOST
This is... really fun prose, but I'll permit myself the opening sentence because I think it's such a great hook.
Brandon BudaHOST
And then we can go from there.
Brandon BudaHOST
So here's how Smith opens the Isle of the Torturers.
Brandon BudaHOST
Between the sun's departure and return, the silver death had fallen upon Eros.
Dave BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's right.
Dave BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Wheel of Torture matches.
Dave BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And there is all the explanation.
Dave BrownSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We'll tell you all about this coming up.
5 MINS LATER
Bill DundeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I still got my hair, and he's gone.
Bill DundeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, there's something else I'd just like to say before I leave you.
Bill DundeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm looking forward to this Wheel of Torture.
Bill DundeeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They've got some pretty girls that's going to come out here and spin the wheel, and the superstars are pretty girls.
CricketSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, what do you make of that?
Johnny DollarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Well, if we can take the word of the centuries for it, Torture suggests the violent seeking of information.
CricketSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That would indeed seem to be the case.
Johnny DollarSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
From the looks of this room, a monkey's fist or any other kind of knot wouldn't be hard to lay your hands on.
Jeffrey GriderHOST
Isaiah 29.15 says, Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark.
Jeffrey GriderHOST
And they say, Who seeth us, and who knoweth us? COINTELPRO, MKULTRA, Operation Chaos, the Gulf of Tonkin Deception, Vietnam Watergate CIA Coups, Iran-Contra Government Torture, fabricated certainty about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the Patriot Act, and warrantless surveillance of the American people.
Jeffrey GriderHOST
Presidents changed, parties traded power, and congressional hearings occasionally exposed crimes after the damage was done.
Jeffrey GriderHOST
But The intelligence agencies, the military establishment, secret courts, federal law enforcement apparatus, and private defense contractors continued growing.
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