Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values

“How did a state conceived in awe of The Rights of Man make psychopaths of its children?” That is the question posed by Philippe Sands QC and a professor of international law at University College London.

The British barrister raised the question as he delivered the fourth lecture in the Pensa Lecture Series in Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Sands is not only a distinguished English lawyer specializing in international law but he is also an important author writing on international human rights issues. His most recent book is Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.

I went to the talk and wrote about it for Digital Journal.