Mark Danner, Professor of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses the leaked torture report from the International Committee of the Red Cross, the clear ICRC pronouncement that CIA interrogation techniques amounted to torture and the untenable stalemate between Attorney General Eric Holder's declaration that waterboarding is torture and Dick Cheney's admission of same.
10/18/07 – Mark Danner – The Scott Horton Show
Mark Danner, writer for the New York Review of Books and author of The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War’s Buried History, discusses George Bush’s faith in himself as revealed by the recently disclosed transcript of his meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Aznar in February, 2002, and how it keeps getting innocent people killed, the narratives of 'enhanced interrogations' and 'weapons inspections' that make torture and aggressive war acceptable and 'legal,' Bush’s...