by Robert Beckhusen | Jan 9, 2013 | Monitor
It’s been nearly a decade since contractors and U.S. soldiers worked together to torture Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Now, for the first time, one of those companies has been forced to pay the victims.
by Spencer Ackerman | Jan 4, 2013 | Monitor
It’s a bit rich for Jose Rodriguez to have a beef with the accuracy of Zero Dark Thirty’s torture scenes. Rodriguez was the top CIA official who destroyed nearly 100 videotaped accounts of brutal CIA interrogations.
by Spencer Ackerman | Dec 20, 2012 | Monitor
Three Senators angrily accuse Zero Dark Thirty of misrepresenting the value of torture. Too bad they’re not releasing a major Senate inquiry into the CIA’s torture program.
by Charles Cameron | Nov 17, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a tale of two films, two conflicts, two cities ] . Are these two positions — take one side, take both sides — reconcilable? That’s the koan, the paradox that’s facing me, after seeing two terrific films by these two directors...
