Mark Danner and ProPublica's Dafna Linzer Talk Torture

May 13, 2009, 9:28 a.m. EDT

ProPublica senior reporter Dafna Linzer and Mark Danner, a New York Review of Books contributor and University of California at Berkeley journalism professor, discuss the details of the Red Cross torture report, what happened to some of the "ghost detainees" and whether there should be an investigation, prosecution or truth commission to sort out who is responsible for what.

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