Bill Moyers: Reckoning with Torture
http://vimeo.com/42820895
Full Show: Reckoning with Torture
May 25, 2012
After 9/11, the U.S. government turned to torture in defiance of domestic and international laws to extract information about and from terrorists and others who might follow after them. Were it not for defense attorneys and the work of human rights organizations, these prisoners would be ignored. But thats changing.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the international literary and human rights group PEN have teamed up to comb through 150,000 declassified documents as well as large collections of articles and transcripts to produce The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About Americas Post-9/11 Torture Program, written by PENs Larry Siems. PEN and the ACLU have also staged readings of excerpts from the documents and first-person testimony at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah and Lincoln Center here in New York.
Those readings have been videotaped and are being made into a documentary by movie director Doug Liman called Reckoning with Torture. Liman is now asking people across the country to videotape their own readings of declassified memos and testimonies for the project.