A Question of Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Question of Torture write by Alfred McCoy. This book was released on 2007-04-01. A Question of Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A 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. Developed at the cost of billions of dollars, the CIA's method combined "sensory deprivation" and "self-inflicted pain" to create a revolutionary psychological approach—the first innovation in torture in centuries. The simple techniques—involving isolation, hooding, hours of standing, extremes of hot and cold, and manipulation of time—constitute an all-out assault on the victim's senses, destroying the basis of personal identity. McCoy follows the years of research—which, he reveals, compromised universities and the U.S. Army—and the method's dissemination, from Vietnam through Iran to Central America. He traces how after 9/11 torture became Washington's weapon of choice in both the CIA's global prisons and in "torture-friendly" countries to which detainees are dispatched. Finally McCoy argues that information extracted by coercion is worthless, making a case for the legal approach favored by the FBI. Scrupulously documented and grippingly told, A Question of Torture is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have spread throughout the intelligence system, damaging American's laws, military, and international standing.
A Question of Torture
A Question of Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Question of Torture write by Alfred McCoy. This book was released on 2006-01-10. A Question of Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contents: 1. Two thousand years of torture, 2. Mind control, 3. Propagating torture, 4. War on terror, 5. Impunity in America, 6. The question of torture. Afterword: Legalizing torture. Includes bibliography and index.
A Question of Torture
A Question of Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Question of Torture write by Alfred McCoy. This book was released on 2006-12-26. A Question of Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Torture and Impunity
Torture and Impunity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture and Impunity write by Alfred W. McCoy. This book was released on 2012-08-24. Torture and Impunity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many Americans have condemned the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used in the War on Terror as a transgression of human rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the political and cultural dynamics that have made impunity for torture a bipartisan policy of the U.S. government. During the Cold War, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded psychological experiments designed to weaken a subject’s resistance to interrogation. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. media was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. had failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, disturbing images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human memory, doing lasting damage to America’s moral authority as a world leader.
The Torture Papers
The Torture Papers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Torture Papers write by Karen J. Greenberg. This book was released on 2005-01-03. The Torture Papers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.
