Yes, Virginia, there are still journalists worth a damn. And Mark Danner is one of them. In this insightful and informed interview, Danner states that torture is a very direct route from human rights, which is to say, restricted power, to unleashed power. We see a movement here backwards from ideals that were at the root of this country’s founding during the enlightenment: the restriction of government power and the conviction that human beings had certain inherent rights, one of which was the freedom from cruel and inhuman treatment.

We’ve got this posted in the ‘Torture and Human Rights’ catagory, but it touches on all sorts of interrelated topics, including the role, performance and even complicity of the media in covering (or not covering) these things in our society.

Read the Complete Interview Here