Torture team
Subtitle: Rumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of American values
By: Philippe Sands
Edition: 1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780230614437
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Prisoners and prisons; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Detention of persons; Torture; Guanta namo Bay Detention Camp; Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01802311; War on Terrorism (2001-2009) fast (OCoLC)fst01754980; Abu Ghraib Prison; Human rights; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Torture (International law); Abuse of; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Iraq War, 2003-; History
Description: Offers a study of a document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in December 2002, that authorized the use of eighteen controversial interrogation techniques that were used at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and set the stage for a betrayal of the Geneva Convention.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

"Updated with major new details"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kick-Off; title: The Path; title: Comeback; title: Responsibility; title: Epilogue.