How the United States of America came to Torture

April 7, 2008 in Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Torture
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Vanity Fair published an article this month by Philippe Sands about how torture came to be the policy of the United States of America. Tearing apart the Bush Administration’s lies that atrocities were isolated acts by “a few bad apples” and that “enhanced interrogation” was given limited approval as a result of requests from interrogators, Sands interviewed key players involved in altering decades of policy and rights laws and shows that an anything-goes mandate to torture was implemented from the very top of the Administration.

Andrew Sullivan has already said on MSNBC that these revelations will soon result in international indictments for war crimes for senior Administration officials. Will there be any fallout in the US?

Vanity Fair – “The Green Light”

Amy Goodman interviews Philippe Sands on Democracy Now!

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