Question of Torture CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Name: Question of Torture CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
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ISBN: 9780805082487

ISBN-10: 0805082484

ISBN-13: 9780805082487

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Authors: Alfred McCoy, Alfred W. Mccoy

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"An indispensable and riveting account" of the CIA's development and use of torture, from the cold war to Abu Ghraib and beyond (Naomi Klein, "The Nation") In this revelatory account of the CIA's fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. "A Question of Torture" investigates the CIA's practice of "sensory deprivation" and "self-inflicted pain, " in which techniques including isolation, hooding, hours of standing, and manipulation of time assault the victim's senses and destroy the basis of personal identity. McCoy traces the spread of…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 12/26/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English