Documentary Torturing Democracy
"Torturing Democracy recounts how the Bush White House
and the Pentagon decided to make coercive detention and abusive
interrogation the official U.S. policy on the war on terror...You'll
see and hear some things hard to bear but you'll also meet some
government insiders who refused to go along, who stood up and said
'this is wrong.''' – Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal, Oct. 10 2008
"This
powerful, damning documentary …recounts in merciless detail the steps
the Bush Administration took on a road to torture, beginning less than
a month after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. …It’s like a train
wreck: You cannot look away even though you are horrified and
appalled." – Candace Talmadge, North Star Writers Group
"Torturing
Democracy features a number of state department and military officials
dead set against these 'enhanced interrogation' policies. …It also
supplies interviews with prisoners who spent several years locked up,
tortured and eventually released - all with no stated reason. …There’s
fresh footage not seen in past stories from Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib,
and fascinating archive footage of US Army training against the type of
torture favored by the Chinese against troops in the Korean War,
prompting one quote: ‘We have recreated our enemy’s methodology in
Guantanamo.'" - Jim Weiner, Public Media Digest