Torture's Paper Trail

A new collection of government memoranda, some written by professors, shows how officials justified prisoner abuse in the campaign against terrorism

List: Notable moments in the torture debate

Colloquy: Read the transcript of a live, online discussion with Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of New York University's Center on Law and Security, and a co-editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, about whether the legal memoranda in the book show that the Bush

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