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The Torture Memos The legal affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine, Cole (law, Georgetown U.) presents all of the main memoranda drafted by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel concerning the interrogation program then being conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency under the George W. Bush administration. They have been edited only to remove unnecessary repetition, though some sections remain classified and are blacked out. They routinely twist language and meaning in order to justify torturing prisoners accused of terrorism. A final document produced in April 2009 after a new administration came into office, describes the context of the others, and of ...
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The war on terror was justified by a wealth of legislation created by the US government. For the first time, these key Office of Legal Counsel documents are brought together creating an undeniable expose. These recently released memos authored by John Yoo, Steven Bradbury et al, demonstrate the reasoning the OLC used to justify terrible acts of torture, provising undeniable evidence that these officials were complicit in the authorisation of these abusive acts. Edited by the renowned legal scholar David Cole, this is an essential document in the fight against injustice
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"A must-read for anyone trying to reconstruct and understand how the US ended up using medieval torture methods in the 21st Century." Clive Stafford Smith - Director of Reprieve and author of "Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons".
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- PublisherThe New Press
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1595584927
- ISBN 13 9781595584922
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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