The CIA must now conduct interrogations according to the rules of the Army Field Manual, which prohibits coercive techniques, threats and promises, and the good-cop bad-cop routines used in police stations throughout America.

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If Europe is the good cop and America the bad cop, Israel may be the vigilante.

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But, when Congress crosses the line into undermining the promise of the president's chief diplomat, the good-cop-bad-cop routine becomes a liability.

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Under Strauss-Kahn the IMF became the good cop to the EU's bad, which imposed harsher conditions on weaker European economies.

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The same might go for director Kim Jee-woon, a talented Korean known for macabre ghost stories like "A Tale of Two Sisters, " whacky adventures ("The Good, the Bad, the Weird"), and grisly cop thrillers ("I Saw the Devil").

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