February 8, 2008

Ghost Wars

International terrorists should be subject to normal police procedure and normal judicial trials. Disappearing people into an international gulag isn't any kind of a serious policy — indeed, it's merely terrorism of another sort. To understand a bit more about how our approach to terrorism could be so badly misguided I turned to Stephen Grey, an independent UK journalist and author most recently of Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Rendition and Torture Program. Stephen has also recently returned from being embedded with British troops in Afghanistan, so we get a bonus report from the front. Total runtime an hour and two minutes. Light a candle.