Who You Gonna Believe — Jack Bauer or Joe Navarro? - SpyTalk

In the battle for public opinion on torture, Joe Navarro doesn’t stand a chance against Jack Bauer.

The hero of the Fox action series “24,” now entering its seventh season, seems to have cast a spell over the country — including high level Pentagon, CIA and White House officials who continue to insist that torture works, despite all evidence to the contrary.

People, it’s fiction!

Joe Navarro, on the other hand, is the real deal, an FBI counterterrorism veteran who’s gone mano-a-mano in prison cells with many a bad guy.

“There are a lot of people that think that torture and pushing people around and just being nasty gets the work done,” Navarro said during an almost completely ignored seminar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies last week