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Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition-sending people captured in the "war on terror" to nations long counted amon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clarke, Alan W. (Alan William)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
Temas:
Extraordinary rendition > United States.
Torture > Government policy > United States.
Detention of persons > Government policy > United States.
Deportation > Government policy > United States.
False imprisonment > United States.
National security > United States.
Extraordinary rendition.
Torture.
Extradition extraordinaire > États-Unis.
Séquestration > États-Unis.
Extradition extraordinaire.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
Detention of persons > Government policy
Extraordinary rendition
False imprisonment
National security
Torture
Torture > Government policy
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Cultivating a torture culture
  • From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton
  • Significant U.S. renditions to torture
  • State secrets privilege trumps justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan
  • The illegality of the Iraq War and how rendition sparked it
  • European and Canadian complicity in rendition and torture.

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