The Torture Question(2005)

movie - first aired/released 2005-10-18 - 83 min - audience 7.0

Documentary

Directed by Michael Kirk

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.