Culture Project’s "Blueprint for Accountability" event—a groundbreaking fusion of theater, film and journalism—played to a sold out audience on June 7th at 7:30PM at NYU Skirball Center.

"Blueprint for Accountability" featured provocative panel discussions with former CIA Officer Valerie Plame Wilson, retired Iraq commander Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez, author and environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., best-selling author and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, and Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren.

Punctuating the experts' discussion, Director Fisher Stevens (The Cove, 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary) screened vital archival footage and directed theatrical scenes starring acclaimed actors James Spader, Liev Schreiber, Julianna Margulies, Mariska Hargitay and Matt Dillon.

"Blueprint for Accountability" assembled some of the nation’s leading and most influential voices to debate and examine the unparalleled events, policies and circumventions of the previous administration. This forum urged policy makers, the military, and world citizens to craft a decisive moral response capable of restoring both America’s dignity and standing throughout the international community and draft a "blueprint" for accountability.

In breaking news, Dr. Keller discussed a new report released by Physicians for Human Rights that charges the Bush administration with experimenting on terrorism detainees and violating laws on human testing enacted after the Holocaust. The report alleges that the CIA's medical professionals monitored interrogations, recorded data on techniques and pain thresholds, and used this information to "enhance" future interrogations. Keller stressed that these doctors provided the medical sanitation necessary to legalize interrogation methods previously classified as torture, harking back to Jay Bybee and John Yoo's infamous torture memos.

Accountability is critical to democracy. At a time when grave challenges threaten American democracy, only a groundswell of public engagement can restore American values and moral standing in the world. At this crucial moment, Culture Project presents Blueprint for Accountability, a monthly series that asks “How can we empower ourselves to hold our leaders -- in government, education and corporate institutions -- accountable for the events of the past and the conditions of the future?”

In a bold new hybrid of investigative journalism and theater, Blueprint for Accountability brings together the world’s leading experts in politics and journalism with the most visionary artists of our time to create an architectural plan for restoring accountability into our culture.