Jon Stewart slams Bush, the CIA, and their 'deluge of depravity' and torture

Jon Stewart slams Bush, the CIA, and their 'deluge of depravity' and torture
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On Tuesday night's Daily Show, Jon Stewart tackled the big "Christmas release" of the report documenting CIA torture of (often wrongly) suspected terrorists — or as he called it, "the Frozen of Senate Intelligence, CIA clandestine–redacted torture reports." ("Nobody's electrocuting Olaf for information," he added, probably unnecessarily.) The jokes didn't stop there, but Stewart got pretty serious for the rest of the segment.

The report was especially unsettling for Stewart, he said, because his just-released film Rosewater was about a journalist, Maziar Bahari, who was detained and tortured in Iran — and "I don't think they did half that shit to him," he added, after learning about the CIA's "rectal feeding."

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.