Torturing democracy /

Torturing democracy /

"Tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11. [The film] examines how coercive interrogation methods were used by the CIA and then in military interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. It carefully presents evidence that the Bu...

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Corporate Authors: Bullfrog Films, National Security Archive (U.S.), Washington Media Associates
Other Authors: Coyote, Peter (Narrator), Jones, Sherry (Screenwriter, Producer)
Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2008.
Subjects:
Political prisoners > Abuse of > United States.
Political prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Torture > Government policy > United States.
Torture > United States.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Moral and ethical aspects.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 > Prisoners and prisons.
Documentary films.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • War council
  • Enemy combatants-- or shepherds?
  • Copying Communist methods
  • Geneva's ban on torture
  • Opting out of Geneva
  • (The) CIA's "Golden shield"
  • Waterboarding
  • From the CIA to Guantanamo
  • SERE-based harsh interrogations
  • Pentagon Insiders Project
  • "Extraordinary rendition"
  • Deceiving top military lawyers
  • SERE-School playbook
  • Violating Geneva in Iraq
  • (A) military prosecutor refuses
  • Legal immunity for torture.

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