Clip (<5 mins)
Ethics
Anglican
Why Torture?
Theologian
David Gushee
Duration
3.11
Uploaded to YouTube
16 December 2013
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
Mercer University's David Gushee and Brigadier General David R. Irvine of the Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment discuss some of the reasons why the American intelligence community continued using "enhanced interrogation techniques," even when such techniques failed to produce good intelligence. This Carnegie Council event took place on November 21, 2013. For complete audio and transcript and video clips, go to: http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20131121/index.html