Pentagon Interrogation Tapes

A very important story that was published last week but not mentioned in the discussion during Tuesday's class is the Defense Department's extensive review of tapes from US military facilities. On March 13th, 2008, the New York Times reported that over 50 tapes exist, which document interrogations "from Iraq to Guantànamo Bay" with some featuring "forcible gagging" of a suspected terrorist. The review began in late January when Congress began investigating the destruction of CIA tapes that featured US agents conducting harsh interrogations. A link to the full story can be found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/washington/13intel.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin I think this story is important because Americans need to be aware of the many ways that the war in Iraq is effecting our country's relationship with other countries on several different levels. According to the article, only a fraction of all of the interrogations that our country has conducted since 2001 have been recorded. I think this is far more important and informative to the American people then a biography on Client #9's now-infamous call girl.