Tonight on Frontline--The Torture question

[AlCzervik]

In the uncertain weeks following September 11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest levels of the government, that battle -- captured in a series of blunt memos -- exemplifies the struggle to create a legal framework to give the president authority to aggressively interrogate enemy fighters in the war on terror. On October 18, FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors to investigate the struggle over how and when to use what was called "coercive interrogation." The film begins with a policy born out of fear and anger and tracks how increasingly tough measures were taken to gather information about Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and finally the rising insurgency in Iraq. In an examination that begins at the White House and ends in the public debate about alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Abu Ghraib, policy makers, government interrogators, and their subjects talk to FRONTLINE about their experiences as part of this internal battle

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/

[AlCzervik]

1. kick for the swing shift

[DanCa]

2. Were supposed to be the good guys

Now I how Captain America felt when they pulled him out of they ice berg.

[Faygo Kid]

3. I'm watching. But I need too many showers.

I have needed them since the "election" of 2000, and most assuredly throughout 2002, as the singular stench of the false buildup to war assaulted my nostrils every morning in the Washington Post and New York Times. Perhaps I will yet be cleansed.

[DanCa]

4. I rhink I need one of those good long silkwood showers myself (nt)