Wheat from the Chaff

Torturing Democracy

The following is one of the best documentaries I've seen about the Bush administration. I first saw "Torturing Democracy" on PBS, but it's now available as a three-part streamed video.

We may all be tired of the Bush era, but this concise, chilling and very well-documented exposé of the Bush's War on Terror is a classic example of how the means often determines the ends. Totalitarian methods cannot lead to democracy; they only leads to deeper hatred and greater terror. And, it would appear, torture can't even obtain good intelligence.

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National Security Archive Update, April 14, 2009
"Torturing Democracy" Wins RFK Journalism Award

http://www.nsarchive.org

Washington, DC - Today, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights announced that "Torturing Democracy" has won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for domestic television and is a finalist for the grand prize. Produced and written by eight-time Emmy winner and National Security Archive fellow Sherry Jones, the RFK Center called the documentary film on the Bush administration's interrogation and detention policies "the definitive broadcast account of a deeply troubling chapter in recent American history."

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/program/

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http://www.torturingdemocracy.org/