The Torture Files.

Discusses how the Senate confirmation hearing of Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales reopened questions about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and elsewhere. How Gonzales played a large role in orchestrating a change in U.S. policy on the definition of torture; Reason why the policy was changed, justified by the nature of terrorist prisoners; Analysis of what went wrong in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, where the deaths of several inmates are being investigated.