Perhaps you've heard the story of a man named Dilawar, subject of the Oscar-winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side." An Afghan taxi driver, he wound up at Bagram Air Field after picking up three passengers in 2002. Seventy-two hours later, he was dead, the result of injuries sustained while in U.S. custody. The film -- sobering, enraging, nearly heart-crushing -- turns an unblinking eye on a topic that chills us so deeply, it sometimes feels easier to ignore than confront: U. S. complicity in torture. For Ray McGovern, ignoring that truth is a luxury American citizens would do well to give up.
A former intelligence analyst for the CIA -- where he worked for 27 years -- McGovern has been highly critical of America's reliance upon torture to extract information from military detainees, writing and speaking at every opportunity about what happened -- and still might be happening -- at Guant