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In 2002 Donald Rumsfeld signed a memo that authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere. From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how this memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention and holds the individual gatekeepers in the Bush administration accountable for their failure to safeguard international law. Cited in Congressional hearings, Torture Team is the "rigorous, honest, devastating" (Vanessa Redgrave) account of high ranking members of the Bush administration's involvement in authorizing torture and subsequent attempt to cover their tracks.
PHILIPPE SANDS AND TORTURE TEAM ARE MAKING HISTORY.
The New Yorker, April 13, 2009
Andrew Sullivan's blog The Daily Dish; April 6, 2009
Sands is quoted in the New York Times, Nov. 5, 2008
TORTURE TEAM covered in October 15, 2008’s New York Times: PBS-sponsored documentary “Torturing Democracy” cancels airdate and reschedules Nation-wide airing for January 21, 2009—one day into the new administration
October 16, 2008, New York’s Channel 13 aired the documentary, along with the supplementary panel discussion with Philippe Sands, Alan Dershowitz, and Carol Rosenberg
Sands is interviewed in the September/October 2008 issue of Mother Jones:
Sands was featured in Nat Hentoff’s article in The Village Voice; Sept. 30, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick calls it one of the “best new reads” on Slate and Newsweek.com:
Vanity Fair’s article on Philippe’s testimony:
Frank Rich’s discussing TORTURE TEAM July 13, 2008 New York Times
Sands’s latest article on Slate.com
SANDS’S June 19, 2008 interview on NPR’S “FRESH AIR!”
Senator Feinstein chaired a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing June 10, 2008 on the origins of the Administration's torture policies. Among the witnesses was Philippe Sands. Republican leaders attempted to block Sands's testimony through extraordinary maneuvers on the floor of the Senate. Here's a report on the scene that resulted: Senate Conservatives Uses Rare Maneuver To Try To Close Down A Hearing On Torture
Review of TORTURE TEAM in the May 31, 2008 Financial Times
Nina Totenberg’s review of TORTURE TEAM May 24, 2008 on NPR
Huffington Post piece on Sands' work and TORTURE TEAM, May 13, 2008:
Sands’s interview on Bill Moyers Journal (May 9, and May 11, 2008):
Video of Philippe Sands on The New America Foundation, May 7, 2008 event:
May 8, 2008, The Washington Post ran an article discussing (and quoting) Sands and Torture Team
May 8, 2008, Sands was interviewed on Democracy Now! Airing nationally on over 700 stations
Sands testified before the House Judiciary Committee hearing, at 10:00 am on May 6, 2008, regarding the revelations in TORTURE TEAM. Watch it on C-SPAN
Scott Shane’s article on TORTURE TEAM in the May 7, 2008 NEW YORK TIMES
The Times of London ran a review, May 4, 2008
"Rigorous, honest, devastating; I couldn't put it down." -- Vanessa Redgrave
"Gripping, furious and very serious indeed". -- John le Carré
“Philippe Sands uses extensive interviews and documents to portray with painstaking accuracy what occurred in the White House – and that it did so because lawyers at the highest levels of government enabled it to happen…Torture Team’s purpose is not solely to ascribe blame, however, though it does so with clarity and precision. Sands’ other goal is to consider redress for these crimes.” – The Financial Times
Philippe Sands is an international lawyer and a professor of law at University College London. He is the author of Lawless World and is frequently a commentator on news and current affairs programs including CNN, MSNBC, and BBC World Service. He has been involved in many leading international cases, including those involving the treatment of British detainees at Guantanamo Bay. He lives in London, England.
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