Scott Horton expands on Gourevitch and Morris’s Sabrina Harman article, recommends Philippe Sands’s new book, Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, and reminds us that “seven contractors involved in the most brutal and reprehensible conduct at Abu Ghraib had their cases passed to the U.S. Attorney’s office” but nothing has happened four years later. His remarks are from the City University Law Review Symposium “Preventing Torture” and appear in Harper’s No Comment, March 28.
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