Getting Away With Torture
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Getting Away With Torture
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Author : Christopher H. Pyle
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2011
Getting Away With Torture written by Christopher H. Pyle and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanámo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.
Getting Away With Torture
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Author : Christoher H. Pyle
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2009-06
Getting Away With Torture written by Christoher H. Pyle and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06 with History categories.
Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq
Getting Away With Torture
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Author : Reed Brody
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Getting Away With Torture written by Reed Brody and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Abuse of administrative power categories.
Recommendations -- Background: official sanction for crimes against detainees -- Torture of detainees in US counterterrorism operations -- Individual criminal responsibility -- Appendix: foreign state proceedings regarding US detainee mistreatment -- Acknowledgments and methodology.
American Nuremberg
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Author : Rebecca Gordon
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2016-04-05
American Nuremberg written by Rebecca Gordon and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-05 with Political Science categories.
No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government has taken after 9/11 in the name of national security. Torture, extraordinary rendition, drone assassinations, secret detention centers (or “black sites”), massive surveillance of citizens. But while the press occasionally exposes the dark side of the war on terror and congressional investigators sometimes raise alarms about the abuses committed by U.S. intelligence agencies and armed forces, no high U.S. official has been prosecuted for these violations – which many legal observers around the world consider war crimes. The United States helped establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes – starting with the Nuremberg tribunal following World War II, when Nazi officials were held accountable for their crimes against humanity. But the American government and legal system have consistently refused to apply these same principles to our own officials. Now Rebecca Gordon takes on the explosive task of “indicting” the officials who – in a just society – should be put on trial for war crimes. Some might dismiss this as a symbolic exercise. But what is at stake here is the very soul of the nation.
Torture And Impunity
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Author : Alfred W. McCoy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08-24
Torture And Impunity written by Alfred W. McCoy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-24 with History categories.
Many Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject’s resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America’s moral authority as a world leader.
Torture
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Author : Manfred Nowak
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2018-04-20
Torture written by Manfred Nowak and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-20 with History categories.
In Torture, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak recounts his experience visiting countries, reviewing documents, collecting evidence, and conducting interviews with perpetrators, witnesses, and victims of torture. His story offers vital insights for human-rights scholars and professionals.
Torture And Truth
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Author : Mark Danner
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2004-10-31
Torture And Truth written by Mark Danner and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-31 with History categories.
Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate. Did they depict the rogue behavior of "a few bad apples"? Or did they in fact reveal that the US government had decided to use brutal tactics in the "war on terror"? The images are shocking, but they do not tell the whole story. The abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but the result of a chain of deliberate decisions and failures of command. To understand how "Hooded Man" and "Leashed Man" could have happened, Mark Danner turns to the documents that are collected for the first time in this book. These documents include secret government memos, some never before published, that portray a fierce argument within the Bush administration over whether al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and how far the US could go in interrogating them. There are also official reports on abuses at Abu Ghraib by the International Committee of the Red Cross, by US Army investigators, and by an independent panel chaired by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger. In sifting this evidence, Danner traces the path by which harsh methods of interrogation approved for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Guant‡namo "migrated" to Iraq as resistance to the US occupation grew and US casualties mounted. Yet as Mark Danner writes, the real scandal here is political: it "is not about revelation or disclosure but about the failure, once wrongdoing is disclosed, of politicians, officials, the press, and, ultimately, citizens to act." For once we know the story the photos and documents tell, we are left with the questions they pose for our democratic society: Does fighting a "new kind of war" on terror justify torture? Who will we hold responsible for deciding to pursue such a policy, and what will be the moral and political costs to the country?
A Question Of Torture
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Author : Alfred McCoy
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Release Date : 2007-04-01
A Question Of Torture written by Alfred McCoy and has been published by Metropolitan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-01 with History categories.
A startling exposé of the CIA's development and spread of psychological torture, from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond In this revelatory account of the CIA's secret, fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed, A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation. Developed at the cost of billions of dollars, the CIA's method combined "sensory deprivation" and "self-inflicted pain" to create a revolutionary psychological approach—the first innovation in torture in centuries. The simple techniques—involving isolation, hooding, hours of standing, extremes of hot and cold, and manipulation of time—constitute an all-out assault on the victim's senses, destroying the basis of personal identity. McCoy follows the years of research—which, he reveals, compromised universities and the U.S. Army—and the method's dissemination, from Vietnam through Iran to Central America. He traces how after 9/11 torture became Washington's weapon of choice in both the CIA's global prisons and in "torture-friendly" countries to which detainees are dispatched. Finally McCoy argues that information extracted by coercion is worthless, making a case for the legal approach favored by the FBI. Scrupulously documented and grippingly told, A Question of Torture is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have spread throughout the intelligence system, damaging American's laws, military, and international standing.
Hard Measures
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Author : Jose A. Rodriguez
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-04-30
Hard Measures written by Jose A. Rodriguez and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
Torture
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Author : Lila Perl
language : en
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Torture written by Lila Perl and has been published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Allows readers to use critical thinking to create informed opinions on where they stand on the issue of torture.