Tortured Logic

ACLU video features prominent figures like Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and a 9/11 family member reading from one of the infamous Bush administration legal memos used to justify the use of torture against detainees in U.S. custody. The video calls for accountability and the restoration of the rule of law.

The video includes appearances by Oliver Stone, 9/11 family member Patricia Perry, actors Rosie Perez, Noah Emmerich, John Doman and Reg E. Cathey, and musical composer Philip Glass, among others, reading directly from a memo authored by Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel under the Bush administration. The memo was released in April as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the ACLU.

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[zeeab]

What do you know about Islamic culture besides what your lazy ass watchs on t.v.? You been to the Middle East? You know the whole history of the Middle East? I am a muslim woman, I live in Egypt, I have a degree in Business, My husband is a Doctor MD. I am also an Iraq 100% disabled Amercan Veteran. I am treated with more respect than you. Stay out of the Middle East and stop starting wars. We dont want you, and dont need what you call democracy.

[wovokanarchy]

Do you think these views were held right after 9-11? I think not.

[MarshalLucky1]

@Jelperman Yes she does!

[CamillaCalamity]

An enemy who would gladly kill me, rape my children, burn my home and destroy my land deserves no better from me. We are all human. I get sick of people playing this "holier than thou" game where we pretend like our morality holds us above them. Bull...you think no one is watching you you act? You are no better than the terrorists you hate. It's called human nature.

[Dunrobin]

As a Goldwater-republican, I have no love for "liberals," but I have to say that the ignorance demonstrated in so many of these comments is embarrassing, and the willingness to condone torture is appalling. I'm ashamed to admit to living in the same country as people whose sense of morality is so perverted.

Congratulations on embedding your heads firmly in your rectums, all in the name of a sick and twisted sense of "patriotism." You are pathetic and disgusting; may God forgive you for it.

[Izoto593]

What faggots. These people want to kill you, these people were willing to shoot the soldiers that risk their lives so you can sit down and eat cheeseburgers and be on the internet like me. If torture is what it takes to protect our country, under reasonable circumstances do it!

[AntiFed1791]

Yeah, how is this working out for us now? Has the torture stopped? Have the wars stopped? Barrack isn't the savior after all, is he? No, we just turned off and turn away from all the horrors being perpetrated in our name.

How can we think to escape damnation? We will all eventually pay for our apathy.

[EliCross]

@mmyford When they show that stuff like that actually works on these fascist lunatics (you know, in real life and not on 24) I'll be there with you applying the electrodes.

[ButterflyDragon9]

Thank goodness the celebrities know how to protect us better than our own government.  Fucking liberal trash.

[bwjohnson69]

I think we need to do worse...It is very silly to call this torture.