The United States and Torture
Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse

The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse edited by Marjorie Cohn (Paperback) (ISBN: 9780814769829)

Details the complicity of the United States government in the torture and cruel treatment of prisoners both at home and abroad and discusses what can be done to hold those who set the torture policy accountable

Then a psychologist, a historian, a political scientist, a philosopher, a sociologist, two journalists, and eight lawyers offer one of the most comprehensive examinations of torture to date, beginning with the CIA during the Cold War era and ending with today's debate over accountability for torture. Ultimately, this gripping, interdisciplinary work details the complicity of the United States government in the torture and cruel treatment of prisoners both at home and abroad and discusses what can be done to hold those who set the torture policy accountable.

Acknowledgments
Preface: Sister Dianna Ortiz Introduction: An American Policy of Torture / Marjorie Cohn Part I. The history and character of torture
1. Mind Maze: The CIA's Pursuit of Psychological Torture / Alfred McCoy
2. Torture and Human Rights Abuses at the School of Americas / WHINSEC
Bill Quigley
3. U.S. Foreign Policy, Deniability and the Political 'Utility' of State
Terror: The Case of El Salvador / Terry Karl
4. Fundamental Human Rights and the Coercive Interrogation of Terrorists in an Extreme Emergency / John Lango
5. Torture, War and the Limits of Liberal Legality / Richard Falk Part II. Torture and cruel treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody 6. Outsourcing Torture: The Secret History of America's 'Extraordinary Rendition' Program / Jane Mayer
7. This Is To Whom It May Concern: A Guantanamo Narrative / Marc Falkoff
8. Psychologists, Torture, and Civil Society: Complicity, Institutional Failure and the Struggle for Professional Transformation
/ Stephen Soldz
9. From Guantanamo to Berlin: Protecting Human Rights after 9/11 / Michael Ratner
10. Mass Torture in America: Notes from the Supermax Prisons / Lance Tapley Part III. Accountability for torture 11. The Law of Torture and Accountability of Lawyers Who Sanction It / Jeanne Mirer
12. Terrorists and Torturers / Philippe Sands
13. Criminal Responsibility of Bush Administration Officials With Respect to Unlawful Interrogation Tactics and the Facilitating Conduct of Lawyers / Jordan Paust
14. Torture, War and Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis / Thomas Erlich Reifer About the Contributors
Index