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A question of torture
CIA interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror
By McCoy, Alfred W.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80508-041-4
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2006
The well-documented prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guant�namo Bay are not aberrations, as the Bush administration claims, but rather the continuation of a half-century of torture by the CIA, says McCoy (history, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison;The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia ). He shows how, since 1950, the CIA and various nations have augmented traditional physical torture with psychological abuse techniques of "sensory disorientation" and "self-inflicted pain," whic...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
