Last Sunday, the Academy Award for the best documentary feature went to a movie called “Taxi to the Dark Side”. And, this could not have happened without the work of a U-W Madison professor.
“It is a brilliant film. It justifiably won the Oscar,” said U-W Madison Madison Professor Alfred McCoy. “There is no question about it. It is a superb piece of craft.”
In January of 2006 McCoy released his book “A Question of Torture.” He got the idea after the pictures of Abu Ghraib first surfaced in April of 2004. He didn’t see the soldiers in those pictures as simply a bunch of bad apples. He saw sophisticated CIA interrogation methods including sensory deprivation and self inflicted pain