How much of the evidence regarding the extent & nature of US sponsored torture available in the public domain?
MO: There is much information out there to the public and all of it is freely available. The problem is however, it is rarely put together. There are separate journalist reports for one situation and information elsewhere about another issue. In fact, one the challenges presented to me was not actually finding the information, but going through all of it and trying to put it together to construct a narrative. I had to be very selective about which information to include because there was simply so much, I opted for the ones which had the most compelling evidence and worked on that basis. CP: What do you think the biggest obstacle to raising awareness of these torture methods are? How can they be overcome? MO: One of the biggest obstacles is people’s attention spans! It did not take me long to discover that people simply did not know the nature and extent to which the US was sanctioning torture methods, once this was explained to them they were shocked. Getting all the information out i
