The unflinching look at the Bush administration’s policy on torture was produced by Sidney Blumenthal, a fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security, a columnist, and a former aide to President Clinton, and the film’s director, Alex Gibney. Gibney, who also made Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, takes us from a village in Afghanistan to Guantanamo and straight to the White House.
Taxi to the Dark Side, a documentary murder mystery that examines the death of an Afghan taxi driver at Bagram Air Base from injuries inflicted by U.S. soldiers, has been awarded the Best Documentary at 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. The unflinching look at the Bush administration’s policy on torture was produced by Sidney Blumenthal, a fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security, a columnist, and a former aide to President Clinton, and the film’s director, Alex Gibney. Gibney, who also made Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room, takes us from a village in Afghanistan to Guantanamo and straight to the White House.
Blumenthal is a regular columnist for the U.K. newspaper The Guardian and a frequent commentator on contemporary politics. His columns have appeared on OpenDemocracy.net, and he was recently the Washington bureau chief for Salon.com, for which he has written over 1,800 pieces online. Books by Blumenthal include The Clinton Wars, The Permanent Campaign, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment, Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War, and the recently published How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Sidney Blumenthal is available for comment at 202.549.2045.
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