Film Screening: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Iraq 2007)

Wielding startlingly candid interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims, the film provides an inside look at the Iraqi prison abuses of 2003. Award-winning filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores how, given the right circumstances, typical boys and girls next door can commit atrocious acts of violence. Facing the war on terror, the Bush administration justified intelligence gathering at any cost, ignoring the rules of the Geneva Conventions laid the groundwork for the abuse.