Documentarist Alex Gibney, director, writer, and narrator, takes as his starting point the death of an Afghan cab driver in U.S. detention at Bagram Air Field, and the fall guys are talking to him on camera. The path of investigation, from there, stretches out to Abu Ghraib (the familiar photos uncensored) and Guantanamo, and at no point along the way do we get any idea that the Americans have ever once incarcerated a certifiable terrorist in these places or extracted through interrogation an iota of useful information. Canned clips of Bush, Cheney, and Co., fan the flames of outrage. The filmmaker’s late father, an old-school Naval interrogator in WWII, appears on screen in the closing credits. (2007) — Duncan Shepherd
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