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Talking about torture : how political discourse shapes the debate /

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 Guant namo as a model prison, and dismi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Del Rosso, Jared (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2015.
Colección:EBL-Schweitzer
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of Contents; Preface; A Note on the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program; Introduction; 1. The Torture Word; 2. The Heartbreak of Acknowledgment: From Metropolitan Detention Center to Abu Ghraib; 3. Isolating Incidents; 4. Sadism on the Night Shift: Accounting for Abu Ghraib; 5. "Honor Bound": The Political Legacy of Guantánamo; 6. The Toxicity of Torture: Waterboarding and the Debate About Enhanced Interrogation
  • 7. From "Enhanced Interrogation" to Drones: U.S. Counterterrorism and the Legacy of Torture.
  • Appendix: Constructionism and the Reality of TortureNotes; Bibliography; Index.