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The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib
The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. These documents present for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have existed only piecemeal in the public domain. The...more
Hardcover, 1284 pages
Published
February 1st 2005
by Cambridge University Press
(first published January 26th 2005)
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"it is a fool who can not articulate the rhetoric of his opponent" - Mark Kornad
A unique look at how torture is viewed by people [most notably] in the bush administration vs the rest of the world.
An understanding of Why waterboarding and other acts do not constitute the act of torture; the need for such methods and the legal american documents that outline conditions permissable up to torture.
With less of a focus on the actual description of torture - If you are interested in the n...more
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I'm currently reading this book for my exhibition paper, and so far it's really interesting. It's hard to focus when I'm reading it because it gets boring and dense at times since it's talking about the more legal aspects of the Abu Ghraib incident. The parts that focus more on what the witnesses hve to say and what actually happened are more interesting, but overall the book, so far, isn't a bad book it's just hard to read.
Only Kafka beats this, except, this happened. And the retractions of blocked text say it all.
essential history.
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