false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172287471m/160893.jpg 160893 2 <div><div><div><b>&#8220;An indispensable and riveting account&#8221; of the CIA&#8217;s development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, <i>The Nation</i>)</b></div><b><div><br></b>In this revelatory account of the CIA&#8217;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. <i>A Question of Torture</i> investigates the CIA&#8217;s practice of &#8220;sensory deprivation&#8221; and &#8220;self-inflicted pain,&#8221; in which techniques including isolation, hooding, hours of standing, and manipulation of time assault the victim&#8217;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&#8217;s global prisons, reinforced by &#8220;rendition&#8221; of detainees to &#8220;torture-friendly&#8221; countries. Finally, McCoy shows that information extracted by coercion is worthless, making a strong case for the FBI&#8217;s legal methods of interrogation.</div><div> </div><div>Scrupulously documented and grippingly told, <i>A Question of Torture</i> is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have damaged America&#8217;s laws, military, and international standing.</div></div></div> 155294 26 12 2006 A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (American Empire Project) total:30|5:8|4:15|3:4|2:3|1:0| 30 118 60 6 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 25 12:35:31 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 13:47:31 -0700 2009
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