Rendition to torture /
Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition-sending people captured in the "war on terror" to nations long counted amon...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=450194 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Cultivating a torture culture
- From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton
- Significant U.S. renditions to torture
- State secrets privilege trumps justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan
- The illegality of the Iraq War and how rendition sparked it
- European and Canadian complicity in rendition and torture.