Michael Otterman
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Michael Otterman is a NY/Sydney-based freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker. In March 2007, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) published his first book, titled American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond. According to promotional material on the MUP website, Otterman was a recent visiting scholar at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) at the University of Sydney.
A review of American Torture in the Melbourne's The Age newspaper said "Otterman writes as a patriot - one who expects much of his country and is angry when it fails him."
Michael Otterman also runs the blog americantorture.com. According to the blog's first posting on 16 January 2007:
This blog will provide a venue for discussions about America's use of torture and feature updates about the fate of the over 10,000 'enemy combatants' and 'security detainees' held across the globe in secret CIA prisons and in places like Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The blog is not strictly limited to the torture debate-- it will also serve as a place for experts and non-experts alike to post thoughts and reactions to related issues occurring in the United States and elsewhere. In addition to this blog, AmericanTorture.com features a host of declassified documents that chart America's involvement in torture from the early cold war onward.
