| KHlover said: Well, it was mostly psychological torture inside of their prisons, but still. Also, I think the absolute distrust you had to harbor towards everyone because they might be an IM among other things probably could count as psychological torture as well. People start to have a bad feeling towards the NSA, but it is nowhere near the level of the stasi. |
You're still comparing the NSA and the Stasi as a whole, which in my opinion makes no sense. The NSA is just one intelligence service with a very limited scope, and probably doesn't even run own prisons. If the NSA thinks someone should be sent to some secret prison, tortured in Guantanamo or wherever, I'd guess they inform some other department and don't do it themselves.
The Stasi on the other hand was one single huge national agency, so they did what in the USA 15 seperate intelligence services are doing.
| KHlover said: Also, I think the absolute distrust you had to harbor towards everyone because they might be an IM among other things probably could count as psychological torture as well. |
I consider that a rather "creative" definition of "torture", but anyway - are you now referring to the Stasi, the NSA, or both? Because that sentence is probably true for just any intelligence service.
