A question of torture : CIA interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror

Summary: "In this revelatory account of the CIA's secret fifty-years effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed. A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation."--Jacket.

Item details

ISBN: 9780805080414
ISBN: 0805080414
Physical Description: print
290 p. : ill ; 25 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-270) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Two thousand years of torture -- Mind control -- Propagating torture -- War on terror -- Impunity in America -- The question of torture.

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