Torture in the national security imagination /

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Author / Creator:	Athey, Stephanie, 1964- author.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
Description:	1 online resource (pages cm.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Torture -- Government policy -- United States -- History. National security -- United States. Police brutality -- United States -- History. Counterinsurgency -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13440423

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ISBN:	9781452970370 (electronic bk.) 1452970378 (electronic bk.) 9781517913281 1517913284 9781517913274 1517913276
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Other form:	Online version: Athey, Stephanie, 1964- Torture in the national security imagination Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023] 9781452970387 Original 9781517913281 1517913284 9781517913274 1517913276

Table of Contents:

Prologue: "A nasty business" in the public press
Introduction: U.S. torture, prisons, police
Anecdote : Abdul Hakim Murad and torture in four dimensions
Rationale : the refashioning of colonial violence-Roger Trinquier, Jean Lartéguy, and Edward Lansdale
Archetype : mistaking the plurals of torture
Technique : the waterboard spectacle
Perpetrators : Sabrina Harman, Tony Lagouranis, and crafted confession
Networks : deploying the Salvador Option
Epilogue: Complicity.

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