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