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The Torture Question

HOW THE POST-9/11 "GET-TOUGH" POLICY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WORKED ITS WAY DOWN TO THE CELL BLOCKS OF ABU GHRAIB
7/10 2005 4K 83 min
Documentary

In the uncertain weeks following 9/11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest levels of the government, that battle — captured in a series of blunt memos — exemplifies the struggle to create a legal framework to give the president authority to aggressively interrogate enemy fighters in the war on terror.

The Torture Question