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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presents Torturing Democracy
, a film from award-winning producer Sherry Jones, which examines America's detention and interrogation practices in the "war on terror."
Award-winning producer Sherry Jones presents a comprehensive
documentary - more than 18 months in the making - that
examines America's detention and interrogation practices in the
"war on terror." BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presents
Torturing Democracy , which examines how coercive
interrogation methods were used by the CIA and migrated to the
United States military at Guantanamo Bay and other locations as
well as the charges that these interrogations became "at a minimum,
cruel and inhuman treatment and, at worst, torture" in the words of
the former general counsel of the United States Navy Alberto Mora.
It carefully presents the evidence that the Bush administration
promoted these methods and developed legal justification for the
practice. The film features in-depth interviews with senior
military and government officials who fought the policy and former
Guantanamo detainees who experienced it, and uncovers the origins
of the tactics the White House called "enhanced interrogation
techniques."