| October 24, 2005 |
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The Torture Question
"In  fighting the war on terror, how far should the United States be willing to go to protect itself?" To answer that question, PBS "Frontline" ventures inside the cells of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and behind the wire fences of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It traces the paper trail that led to a new interrogation policy for the U.S. military, and it makes other queries: Is torture ever justified? Who's to blame for Abu Ghraib? What do we know about the Guantanamo detainees? Legal experts, White House counsel, and military personnel all weigh in, among them Janis Karpinski, the most senior military official punished for the Abu Ghraib scandal; a former Army interrogator; and John Yoo, the principal author of the controversial Justice Department memos that disregarded much of the Geneva Convention. (in Terrorism) |
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