Torture Memos
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Torture Memos
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Author : David Cole
language : en
Publisher: The New Press
Release Date : 2009-09-08
Torture Memos written by David Cole and has been published by The New Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-08 with Political Science categories.
On April 16, 2009, the Justice Department released never-before-seen secret memos describing, in graphic detail, the brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Now, for the first time, the key documents are compiled in one remarkable volume, showing that the United States government’s top attorneys were instrumental in rationalizing acts of torture and cruelty, employing chillingly twisted logic and Orwellian reasoning to authorize what the law absolutely forbids. This collection gives readers an unfiltered look at the tactics approved for use in the CIA’s secret overseas prisons—including forcing detainees to stay awake for eleven days straight, slamming them against walls, stripping them naked, locking them in a small box with insects to manipulate their fears, and, of course, waterboarding—and at the incredible arguments advanced to give them a green light. Originally issued in secret by the Office of Legal Counsel between 2002 and 2005, the documents collected here have been edited only to eliminate repetition. They reflect, in their own words, the analysis that guided the legal architects of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies. Renowned legal scholar David Cole’s introductory essay tells the story behind the memos, and presents a compelling case that instead of demanding that the CIA conform its conduct to the law, the nation’s top lawyers contorted the law to conform to the CIA’s abusive and patently illegal conduct. He argues eloquently that official accountability for these legal wrongs is essential if the United States is to restore fidelity to the rule of law.
Torture Team
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Author : Philippe Sands
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Torture Team written by Philippe Sands and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with Political Science categories.
After 9/11. George W. Bush's administration declared that they were going to have to work through 'the dark side'. And they did: they turned their backs on international law and on America's history of respecting human rights. They wanted only legal advice that made it okay to torture, and they made sure they got it. Voices of dissent were sidelined, while low level officials brainstormed interrogation techniques and took their lead from Jack Bauer in 24. In Torture Team, Philippe Sands tracks down and interviews those responsible, and makes a compelling case that, in an ugly blotch on Americda's recent past, war crimes were committed for which no one has yet been held to account.
The Torture Papers
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Author : Karen J. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-03
The Torture Papers written by Karen J. Greenberg and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-03 with History categories.
Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.
The Secret Torture Memos
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Author : US Department of Justice
language : en
Publisher: ARC Manor
Release Date : 2009-04
The Secret Torture Memos written by US Department of Justice and has been published by ARC Manor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04 with Law categories.
Here are exact reproductions of the secret memos on torture released by the U.S. Department of Justice on April 16, 2009.**** A unique look at the outlook of the Bush administration, these memos make fascinating reading as they attempt to justify and provide legal cover for measures generally opposed by the United States for the last few decades.
Why Torture Doesn T Work
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Author : Shane O'Mara
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-30
Why Torture Doesn T Work written by Shane O'Mara and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-30 with Law categories.
Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.
The Torturer In The Mirror
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Author : Ramsey Clark
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
The Torturer In The Mirror written by Ramsey Clark and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Political Science categories.
Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer—in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"—became the US's justification for engaging in torture. The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tortures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is, how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners, and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers accountable.
Torture Team
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Author : Philippe Sands
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Torture Team written by Philippe Sands and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Human rights categories.
What happens when lawyers do politicians' bidding? In the style of the best investigative journalism, international lawyer Philippe Sands uncovers the story behind the human rights abuses that the US government sanctioned and the terrible consequences of their actions. Who were the lawyers, military personnel and politicians who constructed the policy and provided the rationale for the one page memorandum signed by Donald Rumsfeld on 2 December 2002 authorising interrogation techniques forbidden under the Geneva Convention? Torture Team traces the origins of the memorandum through interviews with the key figures speaking out for the first time. A chilling and compelling story of men and women corrupted by power and the few who bravely stood out against them.
Torture Power And Law
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Author : David Luban
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Torture Power And Law written by David Luban and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with Law categories.
David Luban analyzes the torture debate in the struggle against terrorism from a sophisticated philosophical and legal perspective.
Gestures Of Testimony
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Author : Michael Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-07-14
Gestures Of Testimony written by Michael Richardson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: torturous pain and its traumatic aftermath have long been held to destroy language, shatter experience, and refuse representation. Challenging accepted thinking, Gestures of Testimony asks how literature might bear witness to the tortures of a war waged against fear itself. Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of torture and power, Richardson adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness to torture and its traumas. Grounded in provocative readings of poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, the Bush Administration's Torture Memos, and fiction by George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels, and Janette Turner Hospital, Michael Richardson traces the workings of affect, biopower, and aesthetics to re-think literary testimony. Gestures of Testimony gives shape to a mode of affective witnessing, a reaching beyond the page in the writing of torture that reveals violent trauma - even as it embodies its veiling.
Torture
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Author : Lisa Hajjar
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Torture written by Lisa Hajjar and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Political Science categories.
Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been subjected to this odious practice--and many are enduring torture right now as you read these words.