New America
Fellows

The Torture Papers

How the White House Rationalized its way to Abu Ghraib
Event

Edited by Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel, "The Torture Papers" is a compilation of the "torture memos" and reports written by U.S. government officials to prepare the way for and legitimize coercive interrogation in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. The authors of the memos and documents include Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Counsel to the President Alberto Gonzales among others.

Location

The New America Foundation
1630 Connecticut Ave., NW 7th Floor
Washington, DC, 20009
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Participants

  • Karen Greenberg
    Executive Director, New York University Center on Law and Security and editor, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib

  • Peter Bergen
    Schwartz Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation; Author, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader

  • Steven C. Clemons
    Senior Fellow and Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation