20 November 2007

You Say Tomato, I Say Enhanced Interrogation Technique

Freedom on the march

Since the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, opponents of the Bush Administration have alleged that the United States government has engaged in a systematic program of physical and psychological coercion equivalent to torture; the Bush Administration responds "WHAT'S THAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER ALL THE SCREAMING!" Leonard Lopate interviews Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh, authors of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.