Watch Tortured Law My oldest sister Marjorie Cohn- President of the National Lawyers Guild, she testified to Congress.
I am proud to announce the release of Alliance for Justice's latest documentary film, Tortured Law. This short film examines the role lawyers played in authorizing torture under the Bush Administration.
The legal architecture for torture was originally outlined and sanctioned in 2002 by a series of memos drafted by lawyers in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. Were these lawyers simply giving the President their best legal advice? Or was their work part of a larger criminal conspiracy to distort the law and authorize torture?
Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced an investigation of low-level CIA operatives who exceeded the grisly authority provided by the "torture memos." But the superiors who ordered these actions, and the lawyers who provided the legal cover have not been held accountable. Will there be an investigation of torture to the full extent of the law?
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