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Talking About Torture

How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate

Autor: Jared Del Rosso

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Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Columbia University Press

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When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. polit...

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Autor

Jared Del Rosso

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

296

EAN

9780231170925

ISBN

0231170920

Enbook ID

09084015

Editura

Columbia University Press

Greutate

544

Dimensiuni

221 x 239 x 24

Descriere completă

When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guant namo as a model prison, and dismissed the illegality of the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation." By the end of the Bush administration, members of both major congressional parties had come to denounce enhanced interrogation as torture and argue for the closing of Guant namo. What initiated this shift? In Talking About Torture, Jared Del Rosso reviews transcripts from congressional hearings and scholarship on denial, torture, and state violence to document this wholesale change in rhetoric and attitude toward the use of torture by the CIA and the U.S. military during the War on Terror. He plots the evolution of the "torture issue" in U.S. politics and its manipulation by politicians to serve various ends. Most important, Talking About Torture integrates into the debate about torture the testimony of those who suffered under American interrogation practices and demonstrates how the conversation continues to influence current counterterrorism policies, such as the reliance on drones.