Edward Snowden offers to help Brazil over US spying in return for asylum

[jmowreader]

96. I must have been on sick call the day they taught those two subjects

Actually, no, no I wasn't. Because I never went on sick call the entire time I was in intelligence school (I went to the US Army Intelligence School, Fort Devens, MA, and the US Army Intelligence Training Brigade, Goodfellow AFB, TX), and they didn't teach us a damn thing about torture or overthrowing democracies...not that we would have used that teaching, but the torture class could have come in handy when dealing with the cook in the mess hall who put five pounds of raw cranberries on the salad bar because we were complaining about there not being any fresh fruit at breakfast, or who made potato soup by mixing a gallon of cooking oil, a gallon of water and ten pounds of potato flakes. (I'm not kidding. The worst part is, after they caught the guy making potato-flavored laxative they promoted him to shift leader and put him on the mid shift breakfast crew, where he went on to introduce eggs with grease, bacon with grease, sausage with grease, potatoes with grease, waffles with grease, grits with grease, milk with grease, grease with grease, and a pot of grease at the end of the serving line in case you needed more. Having said that, it turns out bacon dipped in melted butter is really good.) They don't even teach foreign-language obscenities anymore.

The school you're thinking of is the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, and during the Reagan Junta they did teach those things. The only people who went there were officers from Latin American banana republics. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute_for_Security_Cooperation.