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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aJaffer, Jameel
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAdministration of Torture :
_bA Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond /
_cJameel Jaffer, Amrit Singh.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2007]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource (456 p.)
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tForeword --
_tIntroduction: Administration Of Torture --
_tTimeline Of Key Events --
_tDescription of the Documents --
_tMemorandum for the President --
_tDocuments A6-A153 --
_tDocuments A154-A304 --
_tDocuments A305-A374
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhen the American media published photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. Over the next three years, it refined its narrative at the margins, but by and large its public position remained the same. Yes, the administration acknowledged, some soldiers abused prisoners, but these soldiers were anomalous sadists who ignored clear orders. Abuse, the administration said, was aberrational-not systemic, not widespread, and certainly not a matter of policy.The government's own documents, obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, tell a starkly different story. They show that the abuse of prisoners was not limited to Abu Ghraib but was pervasive in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay. Even more disturbing, the documents reveal that senior officials endorsed the abuse of prisoners as a matter of policy-sometimes by tolerating it, sometimes by encouraging it, and sometimes by expressly authorizing it. Records from Guantánamo describe prisoners shackled in excruciating "stress positions," held in freezing-cold cells, forcibly stripped, hooded, terrorized with military dogs, and deprived of human contact for months. Files from Afghanistan and Iraq describe prisoners who had been beaten, kicked, and burned. Autopsy reports attribute the deaths of those in U.S. custody to strangulation, suffocation, and blunt-force injuries.Administration of Torture is the most detailed account thus far of what took place in America's overseas detention centers, including a narrative essay in which Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh draw the connection between the policies adopted by senior civilian and military officials and the torture and abuse that took place on the ground. The book also reproduces hundreds of government documents—including interrogation directives, FBI e-mails, autopsy reports, and investigative files—that constitute both an important historical record and a profound indictment of the Bush administration's policies with respect to the detention and treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody abroad.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aMilitary interrogation
_xSources
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aMilitary interrogation
_zUnited States
_vSources.
650 0 _aTerrorism
_xPrevention
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States
_vSources.
650 0 _aWar and emergency powers
_xSources
_xUnited States.
650 0 _aWar and emergency powers
_zUnited States
_vSources.
650 0 _aWar on Terrorism, 2001-
_xSources
_xLaw and legislation
_xUnited States.
650 7 _aLAW / International.
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700 1 _aRomero, Anthony
_eautore
700 1 _aShapiro, Steven
_eautore
700 1 _aSingh, Amrit
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/jaff14052
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231511629
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