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Gourevitch and Morris: Standard Operating Procedure

The New York Public Library

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Philip Gourevitch - Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda and A Cold Case. He is the editor of The Paris Review and a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker.

Paul Holdengraber - Paul Holdengraber is the director of Public Programs - newly created and now known as "LIVE from the NYPL" - for the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library. At the NYPL, his stated goal is to make the lions roar.

Errol Morris - Errol Morris is a filmmaker, the Academy Award-winning director of The Fog of War, and the recipient of a MacArthur genius award.

His other films include Mr. Death, Fast Cheap & Out of Control, A Brief History of Time, and The Thin Blue Line.

Carne Ross - Carne Ross was the UK's Iraq specialist at the United Nations Security Council from 1997-2002, where he worked on weapons of mass destruction and sanctions. After giving secret evidence to an official inquiry into the Iraq war, he resigned from the British diplomatic service and founded Independent Diplomat, the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group. He is author of Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite.

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01 hr 42 min 29 sec

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01.: Introduction

04 min 41 sec

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02.: Facts About Abu Ghraib

03 min 38 sec

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03.: Why Tackle the Abu Ghraib Story

06 min 16 sec

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04.: Book and Film Projects

10 min 19 sec

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05.: Mission Accomplished Speech Legal Endrun Around Geneva

05 min 28 sec

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06.: No Conception of the Beast of Abu Ghraib

03 min 41 sec

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07.: An American Story

04 min 16 sec

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08.: Photographs Used As Propaganda

05 min 45 sec

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09.: Expose Became Coverup

05 min 02 sec

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10.: Interviews of Iraqi Prisoners

03 min 57 sec

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11.: Is the Crime Torture or Photography?

05 min 11 sec

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12.: American Women Used to Humiliate Iraqi Men

09 min 45 sec

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13.: Different Conclusions from Film and Book

05 min 28 sec

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14.: Consequences of Normalized Abuse

03 min 57 sec

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15.: Interrogators

05 min 40 sec

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16.: Q1: Legal Justifications for War and Torture

07 min 04 sec

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17.: Q2: Difficult Interviewees

03 min 09 sec

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18.: Q3: Abu Ghraib Unique in War

02 min 52 sec

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19.: Q4: Shining Light on Responsible Parties

04 min 12 sec

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20.: Q5: Abu Ghraib Unthinkable in New Administration

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The Legal Secret of Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' Claim

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Errol Morris Explains Abu Ghraib Photo

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The Crime at Abu Ghraib Was Not Photography

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Partner:: New York Public Library
Location:: New York Publc Library
New York, NY
Event Date:: 05.13.08
Speakers:: Philip Gourevitch,; Paul Holdengraber,; Errol Morris,; Carne Ross

Summary: When the infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib prison were first made public four years ago, they seemed to constitute an awesome expose of the profound corruption of America’s response to September 11th.

The sanction of torture, and the decriminalization of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners in wartime, have become defining legacies of the current Administration—and have given us the defining images of America’s changing standing in the eyes of the world.

But it didn’t take long for the soldiers who took and appeared in the Abu Ghraib photographs to be singled out as depraved rogues, when in fact they were implementing America’s de facto policy in Iraq. Just as criminality had become the norm, the expose now became the cover-up.

Now, two of our keenest moral and political observers, author Philip Gourevitch and filmmaker Errol Morris, have taken on the story of the soldiers who took and appeared in the photographs—and they have produced a war story that explores the horror at the core of the ongoing campaign to fight terror with terror.

In their new book, Standard Operating Procedure, Gourevitch and Morris expand on the investigation Morris conducted for his just-released film of the same title, to tell the story of Abu Ghraib from the inside out and the bottom up - Live from NYPL