Monographie

A Question of torture : CIA interrogation, from the Cold war to the war on terror [Texte imprimé] ; Alfred W. Mccoy

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Titre(s)
  • A Question of torture : CIA interrogation, from the Cold war to the war on terror [Texte imprimé] ; Alfred W. Mccoy
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • New York : Holt, 2007
Description matérielle
  • 310 p.
  • : 22 cm
Collection
  • The Americain empire project
ISBN
  • 978-0-8050-8248-7
Appartient à la collection
  • The Americain empire project
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 363.32
Note(s)
  • Bibliogr.
  • Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • In this revelatory account of the CIA¹s fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy locates the deep roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. A Question of Torture investigates the CIA¹s practice of sensory deprivation and self-inflicted pain, in which techniques including isolation, hooding, hours of standing, and manipulation of time assault the victim¹s senses and destroy the basis of personal identity. McCoy traces the spread of these practices across the globe, from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, and argues that after 9/11, psychological torture became the weapon of choice in the CIA¹s global prisons, reinforced by rendition of detainees to torture-friendly countries. Finally, McCoy shows that information extracted by coercion is worthless, making a strong case for the FBI¹s legal methods of interrogation.
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