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November 21, 2004
BROADCAST 07
TORTURE (american style) LISTEN
In nominating Alberto Gonzales, the man behind the now infamous torture memos, to be his new Attorney General President Bush is sending a message to us and the world about how exactly his administration feels about terror. Elisa Massimino, the Washington Director of Human Rights First helps us decode this message. As you might recall, a few months ago some really bad things happened in Abu Ghraib. Dr. Alfred Mccoy, a historian of the CIA's relationship with torture and an author of a recent article on the CIA's role in Abu Ghraib, helps us decode those images from that scandal that never became a real scandal. We also hear from Professor Joan Dayan, a historian of American Prison law (and a professor of English at Vanderbilt). She has a piece in the current issue of the Boston Review where she makes the claim that if we are to truly understand our foreign policy regarding torture, we need to reexamine our Prison laws. And your host contemplates how exactly he would interview Dr. Alan Dershowitz, a man who openly advocates making torture part of our legal system.
Posted by bw at November 21, 2004 08:34 PM