Administration of Torture in the Bush White House

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
The Bush administration insisted that the torture at Abu Ghraib was an isolated aberration. The official documents tell a very different story. Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh have co-authored Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.

Administration of Torture is available for purchase at amazon.com

You can read some of the official documents discussed in Administration of Torture here:

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