You will find more information about the George W. Bush administration’s detention and interrogation program, the ensuing controversy at Berkeley Law, and the Botero exhibit below.
Resources Regarding the Detention and Interrogation Program and the Botero Exhibit at Berkeley Law
Government Documents
David Cole, Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable (2009).
Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, from John C. Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under U.S.C §§ 2340-2340A, Aug. 1, 2002.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program, S. Rep. No. 113-288 (2014).
Memorandum for Attorney General Eric Holder from Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis: Memorandum of Decision Regarding the Objections to the Findings of Professional Misconduct in the Office of Professional Responsibility’s Report of Investigation in the Office of Legal Counsel’s Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s Use of “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” on Suspected Terrorists, Jan. 5, 2010.
U.S. Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility: Investigation into the Office of Legal Counsel’s Memoranda on Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s Use of “Enhanced Techniques” on Suspected Terrorists, July 29, 2009.
Books and Articles Regarding the Detention and Interrogation Program
Mark Danner, Abu Ghraib: The Hidden Story, N.Y. Review of Books, Oct. 7, 2004.
Mark Danner, The Logic of Torture, N.Y. Review of Books, June 24, 2004.
Mark Danner, Torture and Truth, N.Y. Review of Books, June 10, 2004.
Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration (2007).
Seymour Hersh, The Gray Zone, The New Yorker, May 24, 2004.
Seymour Hersh, The “Kill Team” Photographs, The New Yorker, March 22, 2011.
Seymour Hersh, Torture at Abu Ghraib, The New Yorker, April 30, 2004.
Joseph Margulies, Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (2007).
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals (2008).
Philippe Sands, Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008).
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. & Aziz Z. Huq, Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Torture (2007).
Jeremy Waldron, Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House, 105 Columbia Law Review 1681, 1687 (2005).
John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (2005).
John Yoo, War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror (2006).
Background on the Botero Exhibit
Christopher Edley, Jr., Art and Law in a Time of Torture, Berkeley Rev. Latin Am. Stud., Fall 2012.
Christopher Edley, Jr., The Torture Memos and Academic Freedom, Berkeley Law News, April 10, 2008.
Christopher Edley, Jr., The Torture Memos, Professor Yoo, and Academic Freedom, Berkeley Law News, Aug. 20, 2009.
Laurel E. Fletcher, Let’s Talk About the Boteros: Law, Memory, and the Torture Memos at Berkeley Law, 38 Berkeley J. Int’l L. 1 (2020).
Edley Interview Addresses Demands for Yoo’s Ouster, KQED Radio, Aug. 17, 2009.
Martin Lasden, Mad About Yoo, Daily J., Sept. 2, 2007.
Asaf Shalev, Protesters at Boalt Commencement Call for Yoo’s Removal, Daily Californian, May 19, 2008.
- Doe Library/Center for Latin American Studies Exhibit, January 29, 2007-March 23, 2007
Botero at Berkeley: A Conversation with the Artist, Berkeley Rev. Latin Am. Stud., Spring 2007.
Daniel Coronell, Botero at Berkeley: Figures in Light and Shadow, Berkeley Rev. Latin Am. Stud., Spring 2007.
Sarah Moody, Botero at Berkeley: Art and Violence, Berkeley Rev. Latin Am. Stud., Spring 2007.
Harley Shaiken, Commentary: Art in a Time of Violence, Berkeley Rev. Latin Am. Stud., Spring 2007.
Jean Spencer, Botero at Berkeley: Bringing Botero to Berkeley, Berkeley Rev. Latin Am. Stud., Spring 2007.
- BAMPFA Exhibit, September 23, 2009-February 7, 2010
Kenneth Baker, Fernando Botero’s View of Abu Ghraib Atrocities, S.F. Gate, Feb. 11, 2012.
Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pac. Film Archive, Sept. 23, 2009.
Jennifer Modenessi, Fall Arts: Shocking Images of Abu Ghraib Inspire Art Exhibit, East Bay Times, Aug. 24, 2009.