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Talking About Torture

Jared Del Rosso
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Author : Jared Del Rosso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231539494

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When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantánamo as a model prison, and dismissed the illegality of the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation." By the end of the Bush administration, members of both major congressional parties had come to denounce enhanced interrogation as torture and argue for the closing of Guantánamo. What initiated this shift? In Talking About Torture, Jared Del Rosso reviews transcripts from congressional hearings and scholarship on denial, torture, and state violence to document this wholesale change in rhetoric and attitude toward the use of torture by the CIA and the U.S. military during the War on Terror. He plots the evolution of the "torture issue" in U.S. politics and its manipulation by politicians to serve various ends. Most important, Talking About Torture integrates into the debate about torture the testimony of those who suffered under American interrogation practices and demonstrates how the conversation continues to influence current counterterrorism policies, such as the reliance on drones.

Speaking about Torture

Julie A. Carlson,Elisabeth Weber
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Author : Julie A. Carlson,Elisabeth Weber
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823242245

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This collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these disciplines advance the discussion and eradication of torture by speaking about it in terms cognizant of the assaults on truth, memory, subjectivity, and language that the humanities theorize and that experience of torture perpetuates.

Why Torture Doesn’t Work

Shane O'Mara
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Author : Shane O'Mara
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674743908

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Why Torture Doesn’t Work by Shane O'Mara Pdf

Besides being cruel and inhumane, torture does not work the way torturers assume it does. As Shane O’Mara’s account of the neuroscience of suffering reveals, extreme stress creates profound problems for memory, mood, and thinking, and sufferers predictably produce information that is deeply unreliable, or even counterproductive and dangerous.

Hard Measures

Jose A. Rodriguez,Bill Harlow
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Author : Jose A. Rodriguez,Bill Harlow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451663488

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Hard Measures by Jose A. Rodriguez,Bill Harlow Pdf

An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.

Torture

Lisa Hajjar
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Author : Lisa Hajjar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415518062

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Torture is indisputably abhorrent. Why, you might ask, would you even want to think or read about torture? That is a very good question, and one this book addresses in a compelling and enlightening way. Torture is a very important issue, not least because millions of people around the world have been subjected to this odious practice--and many are enduring torture right now as you read these words.

The Torture Letters

Laurence Ralph
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Author : Laurence Ralph
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226729800

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Torture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens—and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitted to the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission of Illinois each week. Four hundred cases are currently pending investigation. Between 1972 and 1991, at least 125 black suspects were tortured by Chicago police officers working under former Police Commander Jon Burge. As the more recent revelations from the Homan Square “black site” show, that brutal period is far from a historical anomaly. For more than fifty years, police officers who took an oath to protect and serve have instead beaten, electrocuted, suffocated, and raped hundreds—perhaps thousands—of Chicago residents. In The Torture Letters, Laurence Ralph chronicles the history of torture in Chicago, the burgeoning activist movement against police violence, and the American public’s complicity in perpetuating torture at home and abroad. Engaging with a long tradition of epistolary meditations on racism in the United States, from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me, Ralph offers in this book a collection of open letters written to protesters, victims, students, and others. Through these moving, questing, enraged letters, Ralph bears witness to police violence that began in Burge’s Area Two and follows the city’s networks of torture to the global War on Terror. From Vietnam to Geneva to Guantanamo Bay—Ralph’s story extends as far as the legacy of American imperialism. Combining insights from fourteen years of research on torture with testimonies of victims of police violence, retired officers, lawyers, and protesters, this is a powerful indictment of police violence and a fierce challenge to all Americans to demand an end to the systems that support it. With compassion and careful skill, Ralph uncovers the tangled connections among law enforcement, the political machine, and the courts in Chicago, amplifying the voices of torture victims who are still with us—and lending a voice to those long deceased.

The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Academic Edition)

Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture Academic Edition Book PDF

Author : Senate Select Committee On Intelligence
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612198477

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The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture (Academic Edition) by Senate Select Committee On Intelligence Pdf

The study edition of book the Los Angeles Times called, "The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations." This is the complete Executive Summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention programs -- a.k.a., The Torture Report. Based on over six million pages of secret CIA documents, the report details a covert program of secret prisons, prisoner deaths, interrogation practices, and cooperation with other foreign and domestic agencies, as well as the CIA's efforts to hide the details of the program from the White House, the Department of Justice, the Congress, and the American people. Over five years in the making, it is presented here exactly as redacted and released by the United States government on December 9, 2014, with an introduction by Daniel J. Jones, who led the Senate investigation. This special edition includes: • Large, easy-to-read format. • Almost 3,000 notes formatted as footnotes, exactly as they appeared in the original report. This allows readers to see obscured or clarifying details as they read the main text. • An introduction by Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones who led the investigation and wrote the report for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and a forward by the head of that committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Women Unsilenced

Jeanne Sarson,Linda MacDonald
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Author : Jeanne Sarson,Linda MacDonald
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781525593246

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Women Unsilenced by Jeanne Sarson,Linda MacDonald Pdf

Women Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives—women’s recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society’s failure to recognize and address such crimes, and close examinations of how justice, health, political, and social systems perpetuate revictimizing trauma. Written by retired public health nurses who include their own experiences helped give voice and understanding to women who have been silenced. This book discloses their “underground” caring work and offers “kitchen table” research and insights, using women’s storytelling on multiple platforms to educate readers on the unimaginable layers of perpetrators’ modus operandi of violence, manipulation, and deceit. At times raw, painful, and shocking, this book is an important resource for those who have survived such crimes; professionals who support those victimized by torturers and traffickers; police, legal professionals, criminologists, human rights activists, and educators alike. It reveals how healing and claiming one’s relationship with/to/for Self is possible.

John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism

Julie Ann Carlson,Elisabeth Weber
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Author : Julie Ann Carlson,Elisabeth Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Torture in literature
ISBN : 0823246221

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John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism by Julie Ann Carlson,Elisabeth Weber Pdf

This collection of essays take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. The book speaks about the practice in an effort to challenge the surprisingly widespread acceptance of state-sanctioned torture among Americans.

Consequence

Eric Fair
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Author : Eric Fair
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627795142

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A man questions everything--his faith, his morality, his country--as he recounts his experience as an interrogator in Iraq; an unprecedented memoir and "an act of incredible bravery" (Phil Klay) "Remarkable... Both an agonized confession and a chilling expose of one of the darkest interludes of the War on Terror. Only this kind of courage and honesty can bring America back to the democratic values that we are so rightfully proud of." --Sebastian Junger Consequence is the story of Eric Fair, a kid who grew up in the shadows of crumbling Bethlehem Steel plants nurturing a strong faith and a belief that he was called to serve his country. It is a story of a man who chases his own demons from Egypt, where he served as an Army translator, to a detention center in Iraq, to seminary at Princeton, and eventually, to a heart transplant ward at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, after several months as an interrogator with a private contractor in Iraq, Eric Fair's nightmares take new forms: first, there had been the shrinking dreams; now the liquid dreams begin. By the time he leaves Iraq after that first deployment (he will return), Fair will have participated in or witnessed a variety of aggressive interrogation techniques including sleep deprivation, stress positions, diet manipulation, exposure, and isolation. Years later, his health and marriage crumbling, haunted by the role he played in what we now know as "enhanced interrogation," it is Fair's desire to speak out that becomes a key to his survival. Spare and haunting, Eric Fair's memoir is both a brave, unrelenting confession and a book that questions the very depths of who he, and we as a country, have become.

The Black Banners

Ali H. Soufan
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Author : Ali H. Soufan
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Torture
ISBN : 0241956161

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A book that will change the way we think about al-Qaeda, intelligence, and the events that forever changed America.

Torture and the Ticking Bomb

Bob Brecher
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Author : Bob Brecher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119431367

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This timely and passionate book is the first to address itself to Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz’s controversial arguments for the limited use of interrogational torture and its legalisation. Argues that the respectability Dershowitz's arguments confer on the view that torture is a legitimate weapon in the war on terror needs urgently to be countered Takes on the advocates of torture on their own utilitarian grounds Timely and passionately written, in an accessible, jargon-free style Forms part of the provocative and timely Blackwell Public Philosophy series

Blowing My Cover

Lindsay Moran
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Author : Lindsay Moran
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101117798

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Call me naïve, but when I was a girl-watching James Bond and devouring Harriet the Spy-all I wanted was to grow up to be a spy. Unlike most kids, I didn't lose my secret-agent aspirations. So as a bright-eyed, idealistic college grad, I sent my resume to the CIA. Getting in was a story in itself. I peed in more cups than you could imagine, and was nearly condemned as a sexual deviant by the staff psychologist. My roommates were getting freaked out by government investigators lurking around, asking questions about my past. Finally, the CIA was training me to crash cars into barriers at 60 mph. Jump out of airplanes with cargo attached to my body. Survive interrogation, travel in alias, lose a tail. One thing they didn't teach us was how to date a guy while lying to him about what you do for a living. That I had to figure out for myself. Then I was posted overseas. And that's when the real fun began.

Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka

Dhana Hughes
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Author : Dhana Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135038151

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Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka by Dhana Hughes Pdf

Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it. The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known locally as the Terror (Bheeshanaya). It illuminates the ways in which the ethical charge carried by violence seeps into the fabric of life in the aftermath, and discusses that for those who have perpetrated violence, the mediation of its memory is ethically tendentious and steeped in the moral, carrying important implications for notions of the self and for the negotiation of sociality in the present. Providing an important understanding of the motivations, meanings, and consequences of violence, the book is of interest to students and scholars of South Asia, Political Science, Trauma Studies and War Studies.

Tortured Logic

Joseph K. Young,Erin M. Kearns
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Author : Joseph K. Young,Erin M. Kearns
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231548090

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Experts in the intelligence community say that torture is ineffective. Yet much of the public appears unconvinced: surveys show that nearly half of Americans think that torture can be acceptable for counterterrorism purposes. Why do people persist in supporting torture—and can they be persuaded to change their minds? In Tortured Logic, Erin M. Kearns and Joseph K. Young draw upon a novel series of group experiments to understand how and why the average citizen might come to support the use of torture techniques. They find evidence that when torture is depicted as effective in the media, people are more likely to approve of it. Their analysis weighs variables such as the ethnicity of the interrogator and the suspect; the salience of one’s own mortality; and framing by experts. Kearns and Young also examine who changes their opinions about torture and how, demonstrating that only some individuals have fixed views while others have more malleable beliefs. They argue that efforts to reduce support for torture should focus on convincing those with fluid views that torture is ineffective. The book features interviews with experienced interrogators and professionals working in the field to contextualize its findings. Bringing empirical rigor to a fraught topic, Tortured Logic has important implications for understanding public perceptions of counterterrorism strategy.