A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on TerrorA startling exposé of the CIA's development and spread of psychological torture, from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and beyond In this revelatory account of the CIA's secret, fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed, A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation. |
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User Review - dougwood57 - LibraryThingAlfred McCoy, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, has long been a thorn in the side of the CIA. In the pages of this brief book McCoy traces the history of modern ... Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThe well-documented prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guant�namo Bay are not aberrations, as the Bush administration claims, but rather the continuation of a half-century of torture by the ... Read full review
Contents
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Mind Control | 27 |
Propagating Torture | 60 |
A War on Terror | 108 |
Impunity in America | 151 |
The Question of Torture | 188 |
Legalizing Torture | 210 |
Notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 264 |
Acronyms | 291 |
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A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror Alfred McCoy No preview available - 2006 |