Torture: A History of the Present

April 14, 2008 Speaker: Jameel Jaffer, Director, ACLU National Security Project Presented by: Institute for Global Security Law and Policy Summary: When the American media published photographs of US soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. Over the next four years, it refined its public position at the margins, but by and large its story remained the ...
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