Insight with Philippe Sands: Torture Team
By: Frontline
Posted: Oct 2 08
Witnessed: 264 times
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America, election, Frontline Club, Geneva Convention, McCain, news, Obama, torture, USA, world
Philippe Sands investigates in his new book Torture Team - how the Rumsfeld Memo - a Memo signed by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002 that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation which defied international definitions of torture - set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention.
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