· The Torture Debate in America. Karen J. Greenberg. Cambridge University Press, - Law. 1 Review. As a result of the work assembling 5/5(1). · The Torture Debate in America by Karen J. Greenberg. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , · This book is even-handed almost to a fault, presenting views both in favor of, and opposed to, the U.S. government using torture. It's grimly enlightening to read that, in one contributor's opinion, we should have a court to issue torture warrants (chapter 3),or that the methods of torture used aren't really torture (chapter 2, as in the Bush administration's line.)/5.
Authors: Karen J. Greenberg, Joshua L. Dratel. Categories: Iraq War, Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Get BOOK. The Torture Papers consists of the "torture memos" and reports written by U.S. government officials to prepare the way for and to legitimize coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and Abu Ghraib. The Torture Debate in America by Karen J Greenberg (Editor) starting at $ The Torture Debate in America has 2 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. in THE TORTURE DEBATE IN AMERICA (Cambridge University Press, Karen J. Greenberg, ed., ) 13 Pages Posted: 8 Oct See all articles by David D. Caron.
The Torture Debate in America Karen J. Greenberg (Editor), Cambridge University Press, , pp. Stephen de Wijze There is an old Jewish joke about two Yeshiva students who go to the rabbi to settle a heated legal dispute over which they have been arguing all day. Max, the first. The editor of Torture Debate in America, Karen J. Greenberg is executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law, editor of both Al Qaeda Now and the NYU Review of Law and Security, and coeditor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (). In her introduction to the compilation under consideration, Greenberg notes her objective of raising public consciousness on torture and facilitating open discussion on US policy regarding that subject. Summary. THE DEBATE OVER THE UNITED STATES' POST-SEPTEMBER 11TH ENDORSE ment of torture as a policy in aid of interrogation has been curious indeed. Official U.S. government memoranda defined torture so narrowly, in contravention of U.S. law and treaties, and interrogators and jailers engaged in abusive acts undoubtedly constituting torture under U.S. and international law, yet the United States has neither admitted that such policy existed, nor formally defended the mistreatment of detainees.
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