The United States and torture
Subtitle: interrogation, incarceration, and abuse
By: edited by Marjorie Cohn
Publisher: New York University
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780814717325
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Torture; Terrorism; Law and legislation; Unlawful combatants; Prevention
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mind maze : the CIA's pursuit of psychological torture / Alfred McCoy; title: Torture and human rights abuses at the school of Americas : WHINSEC / Bill Quigley; title: U.S. foreign policy, deniability and the political "utility" of state terror : the case of El Salvador / Terry Karl; title: Fundamental human rights and the coercive interrogation of terrorists in an extreme emergency / John W. Lango; title: Torture, war, and the limits of liberal legality / Richard Falk; title: Outsourcing torture : the secret history of America's "extraordinary rendition" program / Jane Mayer; title: This is to whom it may concern : a Guantánamo narrative / Marc D.  Falkoff; title: Psychologists, torture, and civil society : complicity, institutional failure, and the struggle for professional transformation / Stephen Soldz; title: From Guantánamo to Berlin : protecting human rights after 9/11 / Michael Ratner; title: Mass torture in America : notes from the supermax prisons / Lance Tapley; title: The law of torture and accountability of lawyers who sanction it / Jeanne Mirer; title: Terrorists and torturers / Philippe Sands; title: Criminal responsibility of Bush administration officials with respect to unlawful interrogation tactics and the facilitating conduct of lawyers / Jordan Paust; title: Torture, war, and presidential power : thoughts on the current constitutional crisis / Thomas Erlich Reifer.