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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCoy, Alfred W.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.
Series:Critical human rights.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=494883
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.