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Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more from this issue: http://nyr.kr/ZwduGM
(Source: newyorker.com)
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There’s more breadth and depth—more of a sense of history at large, of the intrinsic and profound horror of the practice and the experience of torture, and of the moral issues involved in political action—in that thirteen-minute sequence than in the whole of “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Richard Brody on the truthful torture scene in Jean-Luc Godard’s “Le Petit Soldat”: http://nyr.kr/ZuXX4Z
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“Clearly there are plenty of troubling questions surrounding the Obama Administration’s targeted-killing program.” But, Jane Mayer asks, “are Obama’s drones comparable in terms of human-rights violations, to Bush’s Torture program?”
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/XLGfeJ
(Source: newyorker.com)
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Amy Davidson considers who did a better job making a movie about torture—Kathryn Bigelow or Ben Affleck? http://nyr.kr/VO5zQL
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Three Senators and “Zero Dark Thirty”
The senators shouldn’t edit the movie; they can, and should, increase transparency about torture…
Amy Davidson on the government’s reaction to “Zero Dark Thirty”: http://nyr.kr/ZUavGH
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"Between the wrong man and real guilt there is the realm of people we talk ourselves into thinking could be useful to us… We may find that we are mistaken not only about the identity of some blindfolded men but also about who we are, and what we value."
— Amy Davidson on Khaled El-Masri, who was tortured after being wrongly identified as a member of Al Qaeda: http://nyr.kr/Z3HoBx -
"I really resent you using the word 'torture'": Q & A with Jose Rodriguez→
Jose Rodriguez spent more than thirty years with the Central Intelligence Agency, eventually serving as the director of its Counterterrorism Center. He was involved in the Agency’s detention-and-interrogation program, which included holding prisoners in black sites and waterboarding them. Rodriguez wrote a book about his career, “Hard Measures: How Aggressive C.I.A. Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,” which I’ve written about and discussed in a Q. & A. with Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent (and the subject of a Profile by Lawrence Wright). Rodriguez and I discussed his book and the choices he and the C.I.A. made in e-mail and phone exchanges
Click-through to read Amy Davidson’s conversations with Jose Rodriguez: http://nyr.kr/LZbBfd
