What did stepping it up mean?
Stress positions. Physical abuse. Waterboarding. I wasn't in the room when they did it. But I knew what was happening, obviously.
Why are you telling me this?
'Cause I have to.
Well, I really wish you hadn't.
We were at war. Changes the landscape. It forces you to face things you didn't even want to know.
Yeah, like the fact that your mother is not the person you thought she was at all.
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