"You put people into crazy situations, they do crazy things." - Pfc. Damien Corsetti, an admittedly woefully unprepared interrogator of prisoners in Afghanistan DVD Review You need not be fiercely partisan to despair at much of the discussion about the American prosecution of wars after the attacks of September 11, 2001. One gets inured to the horrors, almost immune to the stories—things like the photographs from Abu Ghraib can still shock us, briefly, but the ongoing discussion about what constitutes torture, if we do things like that, if it has to rise to the level of organ failure to be considered torture—well, one would have hoped that that discussion was beneath us. But it isn't, and here we are, in our endless war on terror, and Alex Gibney's masterful documentary is an extraordinary account of how we got...
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