CIA used Westlife song as torture technique, claims civil liberties group

America’s Central Intelligence Agency used the music of Irish boyband Westlife to torture a man it was interrogating in Afghanistan, according to a civil liberties group that filed a law suit against the men who designed the CIA torture program.

CIA used Westlife song as torture technique, claims civil liberties group

By Joe Leogue

America’s Central Intelligence Agency used the music of Irish boyband Westlife to torture a man it was interrogating in Afghanistan, according to a civil liberties group that filed a law suit against the men who designed the CIA torture program.

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