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Rendition to torture [[electronic resource] /] / Alan W. Clarke



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Autore: Clarke Alan W (Alan William) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rendition to torture [[electronic resource] /] / Alan W. Clarke Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
Disciplina: 342.7308/2
Soggetto topico: Extraordinary rendition - United States
Torture - Government policy - United States
Detention of persons - Government policy - United States
Deportation - Government policy - United States
False imprisonment - United States
National security - United States
Extraordinary rendition
Torture
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultivating a Torture Culture -- 3. From Eichmann and Carlos “the Jackal” to Reagan and Clinton -- 4. Significant U.S. Renditions to Torture -- 5. State Secrets Privilege Trumps Justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan -- 6 .The Illegality of the Iraq War and How Rendition Sparked It -- 7. European and Canadian Complicity in Rendition and Torture -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Universally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, 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. Nothing seemed extreme when it came to questioning real and imagined terrorists. 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. “Torture lite” or “torture without marks” became the norm for those in American custody. 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. Many adverse consequences attended American use of torture. False information gleaned from torture was used to justify the Iraq war, adding potency to the charge that the war was illegal under international law. Moreover, European nations and Canada aided, abetted, and became thoroughly enmeshed in U.S.-led torture and renditions, thereby spreading both the problem and the blame for this practice. Clarke offers an extended critique of these activities, placing them in historical and legal context as well as in transnational and comparative perspective.
Titolo autorizzato: Rendition to torture  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49242-2
9786613587657
0-8135-5312-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910461197503321
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Serie: Genocide, political violence, human rights series.