torture is wrong

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Torture. The word appears almost daily in the headlines of newspapers across the country. As long-held secrets of the Bush administration's policies on detention and interrogation are revealed, Americans are increasingly asking questions: behind the closed doors of far-away prisons, what acts were committed in our name? Who committed these acts? And will they be held to account? Can a nation that has committed torture afford to walk away from its past?

"Torture on Trial" is a Link TV original production that investigates the history of interrogations in the "War on Terrorism", and the growing movement calling for accountability for those who authorized and participated in torture.

Featured guests include:

George Hunsinger
Founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture

Jane Mayer
Staff Writer with The New Yorker & Author of "The Dark Side"

Mark Danner
UC Berkeley Journalism Professor, Author of "Torture and Truth" & Contributor to The New York Review of Books

Elisa Massimino
Executive Director of Human Rights First

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.)
Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

Maj. Matthew Alexander
U.S. Air Force Interrogator

Article here. 

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Q: Is waterboarding torture?

RICE: The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture. So that's -- And by the way, I didn't authorize anything. I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency, that they had policy authorization, subject to the Justice Department's clearance. That's what I did.

Q: Okay. Is waterboarding torture in your opinion?

RICE: I just said, the United States was told, we were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.

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