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For more than a decade, Alliance for Justice has produced films to help educate the public about social justice issues and expose students to careers in public interest advocacy. 


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Tortured Law:  2009 Film

 

President Barack Obama has ended six years of American torture of suspected terrorists arising from the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks.  The torture was originally outlined and sanctioned in 2002 by a series of memos drafted by lawyers in the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.  Were these lawyers simply giving the President their best legal advice?  Or was their work part of a larger conspiracy to distort the law and authorize torture?  Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced an investigation of CIA interrogators who exceeded the authority provided by the "torture memos."  But the officials who ordered these actions, and the lawyers who provided the legal cover have not been held accountable.