A Few Bad Men

"A Few Bad Men" is about the uses and abuses of interrogation and torture. It is a monumental work and a major contribution to the ongoing discourse of the war on terror. Using archive footage and interviews with Michael Ratner, President of the Center for ConstitutionalRights who represents many of the "enemy combatants" currently in U.S. custody, John Yoo, former lawyer for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department and co-author of several of the notorious "Torture Memos." Orson Swindle, Vietnam War P.O.W. who endured five years of torture at the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" with John McCain.

The film finds that torture, like terrorism, is barbarous and undermines the very society it is intended to protect. There is little doubt that the use of torture in the War on Terror will go down in history as a classic wartime human rights disaster like the internment of Japanese-Americans during World. War II, the prosecutions under the Espionage and Sedition Acts during World War I, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War.

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News & Politics

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• torture
• war on terror
• Guantanamo
• detainees
• torture debate
• President Bush
• George Bush
• Donald Rumsfeld
• John Yoo