Reply #4: Prove it to us by undergoing it just ten times. What's a little duresse, if it doesn't amount to

[Joe Chi Minh]

"severe pain or suffering"? Is it used for some purpose other than coercion? Educational, maybe? But educational concerning what? Trivial annoyances? Why? Why would the CIA's enforcers concern themselves with educating people about what it feels like to be subjected to exotic forms of annoyance?

Maybe too much time on their hands and they have to meet targets. "We couldn't torture, but we've annoyed a number of 'em to death. And we're working on more. Course, if they want to tell us what we want to know, it'd be a heck of bonus, and still we're banking on that."