In “Taxi to the Dark Side” U.S. torture detailed

[SusanLarson]

Source: Clarksville Online

From the director of “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side is a gripping investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration.



By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights. This disturbing and often brutal film is the most incisive examination to date of the Bush Administration’s willingness, in its prosecution of the “war on terror,” to undermine the essence of the rule of law. The film asks and answers a key question: what happens when a few men expand the wartime powers of the executive to undermine the very principles on which the United States was founded.

Incorporating rare and never-before-seen images from inside the Bagram, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons, and interviews with former government officials such as John Yoo, Alberto Mora and Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall (who wrote the first stories about the homicides in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan) and the families of tortured prisoners, the film dissects the progression of the Administration’s policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures, such as Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and others to the soldiers in the field.

Read more: http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2007/12/19/in-taxi-to-the-dark-side-us-torture-detailed/

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The MPAA unleashed a storm of controversy due to it’s refusal to allow the use a a movie poster showing a hooded detainee being lead off into the distance by two soldiers. They described it as being “not suitable for all audiences.”

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[Solly Mack]

1. If any part of my government had any shame whatsoever -

Bush and Cheney would not still be in office.

They would have gone to prison years ago.

And not just them.

[SusanLarson]

2. So true

Agreed the sad thing is even once they are out of office, will our elected officials have the guts to dig out the trouth about the stuff they pulled when they were in office :( I kinda doubt it the way things are going now. Even with a majority they are still afraid to face him.

[Jennifer C]

3. I've seen it

It's an excellent documentary. The best I've seen in a long time.