The Torture Question (2005)

Documentary

Runtime: 83 minutes

Overview

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 β€” captured in a series of blunt memos β€” exemplifies the struggle to create a legal framework to give the president authority to aggressively interrogate enemy fighters in the war on terror.