Standard Operating Procedure
A Screening and Conversation with Director Errol Morris
Moderated by Los Angeles Times Columnist Meghan Daum One year into the Iraq war, photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib appeared on national television and print outlets around the world. The images of leashed, hooded and humiliated captives shocked the world, turning public opinion quickly against the war and launching the country into a roiling debate about morality and American values. At a time when debating what counts as torture has become a political pastime–when the gut, we-know-it-when-we-see-it reactions to the photographs have been forgotten–Errol Morris, director of the …
