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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463765803321

Autore

Bakir Vian <1971-, >

Titolo

Torture, intelligence and sousveillance in the war on terror : agenda-building struggles / / Vian Bakir

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-00978-9

1-317-00979-7

1-315-55082-2

1-4094-2256-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Disciplina

363.325/165

Soggetti

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Moral and ethical aspects

Torture - Government policy - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Studying torture, intelligence and media manipulation in the war on terror -- Strategic political communication, intelligence and its discontents: Manipulating and challenging intelligence -- The rise of the torture-intelligence nexus -- The sousveillance failure of John Walker Lindh -- The surprise of sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the struggle to contain it -- The persistence of sousveillance: Baha Mousa and torture in the British -- The absence of sousveillance: Binyam Mohamed and British intelligence agencies: complicity in torture -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting detailed case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, this insightful volume exposes dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy. Whether in the form of unauthorized



leaks,