Rendition to torture / Alan W. Clarke.
Material type: TextSeries: Genocide, political violence, human rights seriesPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780813553122
- 0813553121
- 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
- Extradition extraordinaire -- États-Unis
- Séquestration -- États-Unis
- Extradition extraordinaire
- LAW -- Constitutional
- LAW -- Public
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights
- Detention of persons -- Government policy
- Extraordinary rendition
- False imprisonment
- National security
- Torture
- Torture -- Government policy
- United States
- 342.7308/2 23
- KF9635 .C53 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Cultivating a torture culture -- From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton -- Significant U.S. renditions to torture -- State secrets privilege trumps justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan -- The illegality of the Iraq War and how rendition sparked it -- European and Canadian complicity in rendition and torture.
Print version record.
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 offici.
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