{"id":117,"date":"2009-04-14T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/04-2\/wheat-from-the-chaff-torturing-democracy"},"modified":"2011-07-13T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T00:23:13","slug":"wheat-from-the-chaff-torturing-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/117","title":{"rendered":"Torturing Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/117\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"blog\"><!-- back and forward --><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogbody\">\n<p><em><span>The following is one of the best documentaries I&#8217;ve seen about the Bush administration. I first saw &#8220;Torturing Democracy&#8221; on PBS, but it&#8217;s now available as a three-part streamed video. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">We may all be tired of the Bush era, but this concise, chilling and very well-documented expos\u00e9 of the Bush&#8217;s War on Terror is a classic example of how <strong>the means often determines the ends<\/strong>. Totalitarian methods cannot lead to democracy; they only leads to deeper hatred and greater terror. And, it would appear, torture can&#8217;t even obtain good intelligence.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">National Security Archive Update, April 14, 2009<br \/>\n&#8220;Torturing Democracy&#8221; Wins RFK Journalism Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsarchive.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nsarchive.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Washington, DC &#8211; Today, the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights announced that &#8220;Torturing Democracy&#8221; 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&#8217;s interrogation and detention policies &#8220;the definitive broadcast account of a deeply troubling chapter in recent American history.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/torturingdemocracy\/program\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/www.gwu.edu\/~nsarchiv\/torturingdemocracy\/program\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">or <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.torturingdemocracy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/www.torturingdemocracy.org\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"posted\">Posted by <a href=\"mailto:cwelch@lexiconic.net\">Colin Welch<\/a> at 6:26 PM<br \/>\n<em>Edited on: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 6:56 PM<\/em><br \/>\nCategories: <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_americanpolitics.html\">American Politics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff2\/archives\/cat_1470078905.html\">The Good, The Bad, and the Stupid<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is one of the best documentaries I&#8217;ve seen about the Bush administration. I first saw &#8220;Torturing Democracy&#8221; on PBS, but it&#8217;s now available as a three-part streamed video. 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