Mark Danner

Five days before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, UCLA hosted a debate entitled “American Power and the Crisis Over Iraq,” including Mark Danner, Robert Scheer, Christopher Hitchens and Michael Ignatieff.

Mark Danner has filed a second piece for the New York Review of Books on the torture that took place under the Bush administration. The Review has also posted the Red Cross report that documented the abuse. Danner’s first piece, published a few weeks ago, is here.

New Wells column. This week’s topic is torture. The source document is here; its author told me that “What is Obama going to do about his predecessor’s actions?” may turn out to be a false question, because Barack Obama doesn’t get to decide what happens in his country’s courts. Extra information about one of the black sites’ detainees, Abu Zubaydah, is here.