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June 26, 2005

J. K. Rowling Must Love This

Harry Potter is being used to get information out of prisoners in Gitmo:

[Members of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee] watched the interrogation of three suspects, including one in which a detainee was read a Harry Potter book aloud for hours until he turned his back and put his hands over his ears.

I'm surprised the prisoner didn't talk. I couldn't finish the first book.

"Conditions 'Better' at Guantanamo" [via OTB]

Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Books at 10:32 PM | Comments (1)

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