The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse by Cohn, Marjorie, 1948- instant download

The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse by Cohn, Marjorie, 1948- instant download

xiv, 342 pages ; 23 cm, \"Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its war on terror. What we lack, however, is a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture--one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to \"enemies,\" ever since. How did America come to embrace this practice so fully, and how was it justified from a moral, legal, and psychological perspective? [This book] opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable treatment she endured in Guatemala in 1987 at the hands of the Guatemalan government, which was supported by the United States. Then a psychologist, a historian, a political scientist, a philosopher, a sociologist, two journalists, and eight lawyers offer one of the most comprehensive examinations of torture to date, beginning with the CIA during the Cold War era and ending with today's debate over accountability for torture, Originally published: 2011, Includes bibliographical references and index, Introduction: An American policy of torture / Marjorie Cohn -- Mind maze : the CIA's pursuit of psychological torture / Alfred McCoy -- Torture and human rights abuses at the school of Americas : WHINSEC / Bill Quigley -- U.S. foreign policy, deniability and the political \"utility\" of state terror : the case of El Salvador / Terry Karl -- Fundamental human rights and the coercive interrogation of terrorists in an extreme emergency / John W. Lango -- Torture, war, and the limits of liberal…