Torture Taxi On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights

Name: Torture Taxi On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
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ISBN: 9781933633091

ISBN-10: 1933633093

ISBN-13: 9781933633091

Edition: 2006

Authors: Trevor Paglen, A. C. Thompson

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"We don't kick the shit out of them. We send them to other countries so that they can kick the shit out of them."-A U.S. official involved in CIA renditions It's no longer a secret: Since 9/11, the CIA has quietly kidnapped more than a hundred people and detained them at prisons throughout the world. It is called "extraordinary rendition," and it is part of the largestU.S. clandestine operation since the end of the Cold War. Some detainees have been taken to Egypt and Morocco to be tortured and interrogated. Others have been transported to secret CIA-run facilities in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan, where they, too, have been tortured. Many of the kidnapped detainees have ended up at…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 6.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

TREVOR PAGLEN is a geographer by training, and an expert on clandestine military installations. He leads expeditions to the secret bases of the American West and is the author, with A.C. Thompson, ofTorture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights, which theNew York Timespraised as “the real thing . . . and not on the evening news.”