Yesterday's episode of NBC's Law and Order, “Memo From The Dark Side”, which looked at the controversies surrounding torture and the legal shenanigans of government attorneys to allow it under the Bush administration, was by all accounts very well-researched, and quite dramatically effective. Here's a video clip from YouTube, entitled "John Yoo ripped from the headlines - Good Faith and the Ticking Time Bomb":
The Memo from the Dark Side episode repeats on NBC, Saturday, September 26, at 8:00pm Eastern Time. The episode also is available, I'm told, on I-Tunes for $2.99.
Marcy Wheeler has a nice post about the Law & Order episode over at Emptywheel/FDL.
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I am a retired psychologist, having worked as a clinician in the Bay Area for over 20 years. I have written about torture, national security, civil rights and other topics. Most of my stories, including major investigatory pieces (some co-written with Jason Leopold) have been published at Firedoglake, Truthout, and The Public Record.
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This documentary, by award-winning producer Sherry Jones, details how the secret U.S. military interrogation program - "Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape" - or SERE - became the basis for many of the harshest methods used in interrogating prisoners in U.S custody.
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