Introduction -- Cultivating a torture culture -- From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton -- Significant U.S. renditions to torture -- State secrets privilege trumps justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan -- Illegality of the Iraq War and how rendition sparked it -- European and Canadian complicity in rendition and torture.
Summary
Many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Extraordinary rendition-sending people captured in the "war on terror" to nations long counted among the world's worst human rights violators-hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of offici.
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