Imporant Viewing:

I won't make any personal comments on this one - other than I think its worth 78 minutes of your life. It won the 2008 Academy Award for best Documentary. The acceptance speech was:

"This is dedicated to two people who are no longer with us, Dilawar, the young Afghan taxi driver, and my father, a navy interrogator who urged me to make this film because of his fury about what was being done to the rule of law. Let’s hope we can turn this country around, move away from the dark side and back to the light."

Frank b. Gibney (1924-2006), a WWII Navy Interrogator ends the documentary with:

I find it utterly inconceivable that the highest officials, Rumsfeld - Bush - Cheney, would not only count on this torture but would actually advocate it. It really destroyed my faith in the American Government because throughout World War II, and the Korean War we had the sense that we were on the side of the good guys. That you would always get justice in the USA. You would get decent treatment and there was a rule of law. We never forgot that. That behind the facade of wartime hatred that there was a central rule of law that people abided by. It was something we believed. It was what made America different.