Information. It's the most sought after commodity on the planet after petrol. Don't believe me? Look at Google's stock quote. Fighting terrorism with sadism, I doubt whether the U.S's top people in command incorporate words like Nuremberg (trials) or Geneva (convention) in their daily lingo.
Docu-filmmaker Alex Gibney (filmmaker behind the excellent Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) prods the into the practices of the Bush Administration and Taxi to the Dark Side asks why there was so much gross misconduct in the treatment of detainees.
Packed with interviews from former government officials, interrogators, prison guards, New York Times reporters Tim Golden and Carlotta Gall, the families of tortured prisoners, the film dissects the progression of the Administration’s policy on torture from the secret role of key administration figures, such as Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzales and others to the soldiers in the field. Currently on the shortlist for the Academy awards' Best Documentary film of 2007, the talking heads docu receives a January 18th theatrical release from ThinkFilm.
