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Audio Resources

• DOJ Prosecutor Investigates Interrogation Abuses  
• West Point Classes Focus on War Ethics
• How Should the Media Handle Beheading videos
  NPR's Arun Rath speaks with the Poynter Institute's Kelly McBride about the ethical issues raised by media organizations showing the killings of hostages by Islamic Militants.
   
• Terrorism Trials Pose Dilemma For U.S.
  The Obama administration wants to try captured terrorism suspects in civilian court. Although administration officials continue to criticize the use of military tribunals, they want to keep that option open for al-Qaida operatives such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. That would be a reversal from Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that Mohammed would be tried in a civilian court near Ground Zero.
   
• Scalia Enters Debate on Constitution and Torture (terrorism chapter)
  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says he doesn't see anything in the Constitution that prohibits the torture of detainees for the purpose of getting information. Scalia told a BBC interviewer that torture would be unconstitutional if it were inflicted as a punishment.

Video Resources

• Ethics – War and Terorrism
  This clip offers a brief lesson on some of the ethical issues involved in terrorism and war.

• Ethics – Targeting Killing of Individuals
  This lecture discusses the ethical and legal issues of targeted killing of individuals in the war on terrorism at the U.S. Naval War College.
   
• KATYN: Justice Delayed or Justice Denied?" - What Constitutes the Katyn Crime?
  The Katyn massacre of 1940 involved murders at the Katyn forest and in other locations throughout the Soviet Union of over 22,000 Polish officers, prisoners of war, and members of the Polish leading elite, by a single shot to the back of each of their heads. For 50 years, this massacre was subject to a massive cover up. Initially the Soviet Union blamed the Nazis for the murders, saying that the killings took place in 1941 when the territory was in German hands. It was not until 1990 that the Russian government admitted that the executions actually took place in 1940 and were carried out by the Soviet secret police. In 1990, Russian prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into the massacre, but the case was terminated in 2004, its findings were classified as top secret, and it appeared that the tragedy would once again be subject to "historical amnesia."
   
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?  Episode 5
  Part 1: Hired Guns?