The Torture Question

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"
  • 2005
  • 1 hr 22 min
  •  7  (1)
  •   Released

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
Description
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.
  • Release Date
    2005
  • Runtime
    1 hr 22 min
  • Language
    en
  • Rating
    7  (1)