>Below is an edition of Terry Gross's "Fresh Air" that
>I found profoundly disturbing -- an interview with two
>US torture -- er, I mean "interrogation" -- experts
>who describe exactly how folks held overseas are
>tortured, how the Bush admin. exploits loopholes in
>int'l law, or just plain hides the tortured in far off
>places where no one knows about them.
>
>It's an extremely sickening portrait of American int'l
>power at its ugliest & most brutal:
>
>http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13
I can't find anything like what you describe at that link. Seems to be some spruik for movies like Oceans Thirteen and the Sopranos.
>To me this is "Why aren't there riots in the streets
>about this shit???"-type info. (And, yes, there's a
>lot of other reasons to riot, but still.) But this
>isn't getting any traction in the mainstream press
>right now.
There are a couple of important documentaries running on consecutive episodes of Australia's top current affairs TV Four Corners. Last monday and another tomorrow. So Americans may be ignoring it (at their peril) but the world is becoming increasingly aware of the evil phenomenon of American government abuses of human rights.
Eventually, Americans will find out. One way or the other. Perhaps not until they are being spat on as soon as they get off a plane anywhere in the rest of the world. Perhaps when international audiences begin cheering for Osama Bin Laden's next outrage.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas