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Torture and national security — will the election turn on which candidate's tougher?
This year's Oscar-winning feature documentary,
Taxi to the Dark
Side , tells the story of an innocent Afghan taxi driver who
died while being interrogated and tortured by U.S. soldiers. NOW ON
PBS interviews the film's director, Alex Gibney, about torture
practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo
Bay and how the issue is playing out in the presidential race. At
the intersection of human rights, civil liberties and national
security, how should America respond?
NOW's Web site at
www.pbs.org/now reveals where
Congress, the CIA, the Bush administration and the presidential
candidates all stand on the issue of torture. Also, get insight
into what's going on at Guantanamo from a former detainee.