Editing Defense Intelligence Agency (section)

=== Skinny Puppy controversy ===
[[File:OhGr live.JPG|thumb|[[Skinny Puppy]] billed DIA for allegedly using its [[Music in psychological operations|music in torture]]]]

In 2014, Canadian electronic music group [[Skinny Puppy]] sent the Defense Intelligence Agency a symbolic bill of $666,000, after finding out that the agency used their music in [[Guantanamo Bay Naval Base|Guantanamo]] during "enhanced interrogation" (deemed torture by some) sessions.<ref>Holdbrooks, Terry C. [http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/industrial-action.html "Why Skinny Puppy asked Gitmo to pay up"], [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]], February 12, 2014</ref> Their music was originally heard at GTMO by a guard, who happened to be a fan of Skinny Puppy and could not understand how his favorite music was being used in such a manner: "[Skinny Puppy's] songs are characterized by ... lyrics that call out corporate wrongdoing. The songs I heard at GTMO were heavily distorted, almost to the point of inaudibility. Even so, I would never have imagined that Skinny Puppy's music would, or could, be used for enhanced interrogation". The officer conducting interrogation sessions allegedly stating that the Canadian group's songs—which are "characterized by relentless drumbeats, panicked, convulsive riffs, synth samples"—were very effective for "enhanced interrogation."{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}