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Takes on the World
Interview
Rebecca Gordon, author of Mainstreaming Torture
 Jeff Blankfort  Contact Contributor
Feb. 18, 2015, 11:44 a.m.
Gordon speaks about subject of her book, how torture was made acceptable to public post 9/11; of media influence in changing perception led by Newsweek's 'liberal' Jonathan Alter; she explores background of US torture practices, from Phoenix program in Vietnam to Latin America; of differences between post-Vietnam and now and need for a Church-type commission to investigate CIA torture and abolish CIA; that Americans' acceptance of torture to protect them is sign of national cowardice; agrees that it is “what we are as a people.”
Interviewed by Jeff Blankfort

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00:28:35 1 Feb. 18, 2015
KZYX Studios, Philo, CA
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