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'Enhanced Interrogation:' Just a Clever Euphemism?

After being informed of a detainee's unwillingness to talk, Rendition star Meryl Streep takes a deep, suspenseful breath, looks at the hooded man, and scowls to her agent, "Put him on the plane!" Subsequent scenes depict an Egyptian-American man tortured in a non-descript basement in what Hollywood assumes is a realistic depiction of American-sanctioned torture. But is this film on the War on Terror an example of art imitating reality? Perhaps...