Reckoning With Torture : Memos and Testimonies from the "War on Terror"

April 12, 2010

Participants:	Philip Baruth, author, VPR commentator, and UVM English professor David Budbill, playwright, author, and poet Stephanie Farrior, Vermont Law School international law professor More Participants... Scott Schaffer, UVM library professor Traci Griffith, St. Michael's communications profesor Ateqah Khaki, ACLU National Security Program Trina Magi, UVM library professor Travis Nelson, UVM political science professor Hilary Neroni, UVM film studies professor Adelit Rukomangana, M.A. in theology, native of Rwanda David Sleigh, Guantanamo detainee lawyer Emma Vick, UVM political science and anthropology major Sydnee Viray, UVM staff, social worker, and advocate Allen Gilbert, executive director, ACLU of Vermont Jeffrey Marshall, acting dean, UVM Libraries
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torture, terrorism, military, interrogation, government

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Program Description:

Following the events of Sept. 9, 2001, the United States launched a “war on terror” — a war against an enemy ill-defined and tied to no geographic place. The tactics employed by the U.S. government to wage the war ranged from conventional combat to espionage. They also included torture, a fact denied by the government at the time but since confirmed in thousands of pages of documents obtained by the ACLU through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.On Monday, April 12, librarians, lawyers, professors, students, writers, and others will read from recently released secret documents — memos, declassified communications, and testimonies by detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere.

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