Taxi to the Dark Side
(2020, original release: 2007)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Shout Factory, 2007
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2020
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
11605157
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security. Winner of an **Academy Award**

Film

In Process Record

Alex Gibney, Brian Cammack, Brian Keith Allen, Christopher Beiring, Doug Cassel, George W. Bush, Jack Cafferty, Moazzam Begg, William Cassara, Willie Brand

Originally produced by Shout Factory in 2007

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits