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Just Views: The Question of Torture
This free, public program features a documentary by Michael Kirk aired on Frontline in October of 2005. An internal battle within the Bush administration is revealed -- captured in a series of blunt memos. We see the struggle to create a legal framework to give the U.S. Presidency authority to coercively interrogate the enemy in the war on terror. Those interviewed include policymakers, interrogators and their subjects. The film shows how increasingly tough measures were taken to gather information about Osama bin Laden, Al Quada, and later the rising insurgency in Iraq. Our discussion following the film can pick up with the current debate about secrecy and legality, functionality and appropriateness of treatment of detainees in the U.S. prisons at Guantanamo! Bay and Abu Ghraib -- and elsewhere, including when rendition has been involved.