Rendition to Torture

Informationen zum Autor Clarke, Alan W Klappentext 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 among the world’s worst human rights violators—hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of official policy; how and why it turned to extraordinary rendition as a way to outsource more extreme, mutilating forms of torture; and outlines the steps the United States took to hide its abuses. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Cultivating a Torture Culture3. From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton4. Significant U.S. Renditions to Torture5. State Secrets Privilege Trumps Justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan6. The Illegality of the Iraq War and How Rendition Sparked It7. European and Canadian Complicity in Rendition and TortureNotesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Alan Clarke, Alan W Clarke, Alan W. Clarke, CLARKE ALAN
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2012
• EAN: 9780813552767
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-5276-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Genocide, Political Violence,; Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights; Genocide, Political Violence,
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law