don't you just love em!!!

Jane Mayer of the New Yorker reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross has concluded the CIA's detention and interrogation methods is tantamount to torture. Sources told Mayer that the confidential Red Cross report also warned that U.S. officials responsible for the abusive treatment at the secret prisons may have committed "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions, and may have violated the U.S. Torture Act. We talk to Mayer and Jameel Jaffer, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Program.

Today, a rare look inside the CIA's secret interrogation program. After 9/11, the CIA began detaining terrorist suspects in so-called "black sites" - a secret network of prisons outside the United States - and subjecting them to unusually harsh and abusive treatment.
Last fall, President Bush acknowledged the CIA program for the first time and admitted that the agency was using "an alternative set of procedures" to question prisoners. Bush made the admission as he ordered 14 prisoners previously held by the CIA to be transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay. In his address, Bush talked specifically about the case of Abu Zubaydah, captured in Pakistan in 2002 and taken to Thailand for CIA interrogation.
While President Bush assured the public that the CIA's secret internment program was humane and legal, one of the world's most respected and credible human rights organizations disagrees.
In a major expose in the New Yorker, investigative reporter Jane Mayer reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross has concluded the CIA's detention and interrogation methods is tantamount to torture. Sources told Mayer that the confidential Red Cross report also warned that U.S. officials responsible for the abusive treatment may have committed "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions, and may have violated the U.S. Torture Act. The Red Cross issued the confidential report to the Bush administration last year but according to Mayer only a handful of people inside the administration have even seen the report. Detainees almost universally told the Red Cross that they made up stories to get the harsh interrogations to stop. Mayer also reveals new details about the CIA's interrogation of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

• Jane Mayer, investigative reporter for The New Yorker. Her latest article is "The Black Sites: A Rare Look Inside the C.I.A.'s Secret Interrogation Program."
  
• Jameel Jaffer, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Program. He has worked on filing Freedom of Information Act requests for records concerning the treatment and detention of prisoners held by the U.S. in Afghanistan, Iraq, and at Guantanamo Bay and is the author of an upcoming book about torture.
  

To purchase an audio or video copy of this entire program, click here for our new online ordering or call 1 (888) 999-3877.