Rendition to torture /

Rendition to torture /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Clarke, Alan W. (Alan William)
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Genocide, political violence, human rights series Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
Subject:	Extraordinary rendition -- United States. Torture -- Government policy -- United States. Detention of persons -- Government policy -- United States. Deportation -- Government policy -- United States. False imprisonment -- United States. National security -- United States. Extraordinary rendition. Torture. Detention of persons -- Government policy. Extraordinary rendition. False imprisonment. National security. Torture. Torture -- Government policy. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11150284

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ISBN:	9780813553122 0813553121 9780813552767 0813552761
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition-sending people captured in the "war on terror" to nations long counted among the world's worst human rights violators-hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of offici.
Other form:	Print version: Clarke, Alan. Rendition to Torture. Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, ©2012

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Cultivating a torture culture
From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton
Significant U.S. renditions to torture
State secrets privilege trumps justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan
The illegality of the Iraq War and how rendition sparked it
European and Canadian complicity in rendition and torture.