A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror - Brossura

McCoy, Alfred W.

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ISBN 10: 0805082484 ISBN 13: 9780805082487

Casa editrice: Henry Holt & Co, 2007

Riassunto

Describes the CIA's development and use of psychological torture, from the Cold War to the post-September 11th era, detailing the use of isolation, hooding, extremes of temperature, the manipulation of time, and other techniques and assessing the implications of such inhumane practices. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Alfred W. McCoy is a professor of history at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and Closer Than Brothers.

Product Description:

“An indispensable and riveting account” of the CIA’s development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, The Nation)
In this revelatory account of the CIA’s fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. A Question of Torture investigates the CIA’s practice of “sensory deprivation” and “self-inflicted pain, ” in which techniques including isolation, hooding, hours of standing, and manipulation of time assault the victim’s senses and destroy the basis of personal identity. McCoy traces the spread of these practices across the globe, from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, and argues that after 9/11, psychological torture became the weapon of choice in the CIA’s global prisons, reinforced by “rendition” of detainees to “torture-friendly” countries. Finally, McCoy shows that information extracted by coercion is worthless, making a strong case for the FBI’s legal methods of interrogation. Scrupulously documented and grippingly told, A Question of Torture is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have damaged America’s laws, military, and international standing.

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• Editore: Henry Holt & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805082484
• ISBN 13: 9780805082487
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 310