SECRETS, POLITICS, AND TORTURE
DVD (widescreen)
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Probing into the CIA's top-secret "enhanced interrogation techniques" program, this riveting Frontline documentary examines whether such techniques as waterboarding, beatings, and ice-water baths constitute a legal and effective means for combating terrorism, or are forms of torture and a violation of human rights.
It draws on declassified documents and interviews with prominent politicians and CIA insiders to recount how these techniques came to be used and discuss what they did or did not accomplish. Countering the CIA’s defense of the techniques, it cites the massive 2014 Senate report that describes the program as brutal, mismanaged, and ineffective.
| Copyright | 2015 |
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| Publisher | WGBH |
| Grade | 9 and up |
| Color | Color |
| Run Time | 54 minutes |
| ISBN | 9781627894111 |