"For an artist who has spent so many years talking to the "pariahs" of his era, veteran filmmaker Errol Morris is a remarkably jolly man. Sitting in a sunny Nob Hill penthouse suite in his version of dress casual, an open-neck white shirt, he gleefully riffs on the big news of his latest film, Standard Operating Procedure, his emotionally and visually devastating indictment of the Bush/Cheney "war on terror." SOP examines the high price extracted from those not deemed fit to join the "good old boys' club" running the war machine. Even the title of this nuanced and layered interrogation doesn't come into focus until the third act, as Oscar-winning documentary-maker Morris gets too close for comfort to the deadly meanings behind the shocking pictures from Abu Ghraib prison.

An extraordinary part of the film draws on letters Morris discovered, written from the prison by a young military policewoman — one of the story's alleged "bad apples" — to her stateside female lover.

At the core of SOP is Morris' belief that the sexually-charged photos of Abu Ghraib inmates served to distract the media and the public from the crimes committed in the course of prisoner interrogations. Morris got quite animated in response to my question as to whether anybody can still be brought to justice for war crimes, including the alleged murder of a prominent suspected terrorist at Abu Ghraib."

Full report:
http://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=f...amp;article=501

Absolutely Riviting.

Thank You for making me aware of this.

I hope the world can forgive us. If we put this administration before some type of court, we might be able to get some of our dignity back. But how do make up for millions of people.............