American Civil Liberties Union : A Conversation About the CIA Torture Program

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A Conversation About the CIA Torture Program (11/8/2006)

ACLU attorney Steven Watt, pictured right, spoke with journalist and Ghost Plane author Stephen Grey, below, about the CIA torture program. Watt is one of the many people Grey interviewed while investigating the secret program for the book. Ghost Plane tells the stories of "extraordinary rendition," where CIA operatives abduct foreign nationals for detention and interrogation in secret overseas prisons. Grey outlines the ethical picture of the war on terror and lays the responsibility for abduction and torture at the doorstep of Washington, D.C. Listen >>

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