Standard Operating Procedure Page #2

Synopsis: Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Director(s): Errol Morris
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  2 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
2008
116 min
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maybe up in the office watching

a movie on his laptop.

Some nights

I'd go up there

and there would be different people

in stress positions here and there

and got them up on

MRE boxes doing squats

or running up and down

the tier, or something.

We thought it was unusual,

and weird and wrong,

but when we first got there,

the example was already set.

That's what we saw.

I mean, it was okay.

The first thing

that I noticed were...

Was this guy.

He had underwear on his head

and he was handcuffed

backwards to a window.

And they were pretty much

asking him questions.

That's the first time

I started taking photos.

I wrote a letter home to Kelly,

who is my wife.

HARMAN:
"October 20th, 2003.

"I can't get it

out of my head.

"I walked downstairs to find the

taxi cab driver handcuffed backwards

"naked with his underwear

over his head and face.

"He looked like Jesus Christ.

At first I had to laugh,

"so I went and grabbed a

camera and took a picture.

"One of the guys took my asp

and started poking at his dick.

"Okay. That's funny.

Then it hit me.

"That's a form

of molestation.

"I took more pictures now

to record what's going on.

"Not many people know

this sh*t goes on.

"The only reason I want to be

there is to get the pictures

"to prove that the U.S.

is not what they think.

"But I don't know if I could take it mentally.

What if it was me in their shoes?

"I thought I could

handle anything.

"I was wrong."

If I come up to you and I'm

like, "Hey, this is going on,"

you probably wouldn't believe me

unless I had something to show you.

So if I say, "Hey, this is going on.

Look, I have proof,"

you can't deny it.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

Gus was the prisoner

with the leash.

We thought he was maybe

part of the Iraqi army,

because he was always,

like, you know,

"Saddam's going to come back

and kill all of you. I hate you."

And all this stuff.

He had all this anger.

And so we thought he was

someone maybe pretty important.

And then we found out the history

of his arrest and why he was there.

And he had gotten drunk

and beat someone up.

He was just

a regular prisoner,

like we'd find at one of our

county jails, or something.

Once he came over to the

hard site, he stopped eating.

And we had to pump him, you

know, five to eight IV's a day

or bags of IV fluid a day

just to keep him alive.

Gus was being verbally threatening

and not following any directions.

Graner put

the leash on him.

And then he crawled out

on his own after that.

And then he handed

the leash to Lynndie.

And that's when

he took the pictures.

And then the guy got up

on his own after that.

They were trying to say

that she was dragging him,

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