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The Torture Question

2005-10-18 · 83 min · ★ 7.0

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In the uncertain weeks following 9/11, an internal power struggle was underway deep inside the Bush administration. Waged between partisans at the highest levels of the government, that battle — captured in a series of blunt memos — exemplifies the struggle to create a legal framework to give the president authority to aggressively interrogate enemy fighters in the war on terror.

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Michael Kirk
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PBS, FRONTLINE
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United States of America
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