UW-Madison history professor Alfred McCoy describes viewing the Academy Awards Sunday night as a â??euphoric moment.” The winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature award was Taxi to the Dark Side, a 106-minute film by Alex Gibney about the history of torture in American policy, centering on the death of an Afghan taxi driver named Diliwar who died in the custody of U.S. Army interrogators in December, 2002. McCoy is featured in the film, speaking about the findings in his 2006 book A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on
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