Torture playlist

Mother Jones has an audio feature up this week -- a compilation of songs believed to be used in US military prisons and on bases...
to induce sleep deprivation, "prolong capture shock," disorient detainees during interrogations–and also drown out screams.

Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.

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