Torture and impunity : the U.S. doctrine of coercive interrogation

Torture and impunity : the U.S. doctrine of coercive interrogation /

From the publisher. 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 fro...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012
Series:Critical human rights.
Subjects:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency.
Torture > United States > History.
Torture > Government policy > United States.
Military interrogation > United States > History.
Impunity > United States.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The CIA's pursuit of psychological torture
  • Science in Dachau's shadow
  • Torture in the crucible of counterinsurgency
  • Theater state of terror
  • The seduction of psychological torture
  • The outcast of Camp Echo
  • Psychological torture and public forgetting.

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