The torture debate in America / edited by Karen J. Greenberg.
2006
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The torture debate in America / edited by Karen J. Greenberg.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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Introduction : the rule of law finds its golem : judicial torture then and now / Karen J. Greenberg
Torture : the road to Abu Ghraib and beyond : panel discussion with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and Stephen Gillers
section 1: Democracy, terror, and torture. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb / David Luban
How to interrogate terrorists / Heather MacDonald
Torture : thinking about the unthinkable / Andrew C. McCarthy
The curious debate / Joshua Dratel
Is defiance of law a proof of success? : magical thinking in the war on terror / Stephen Holmes
Through a mirror, darkly: applying the Geneva Conventions to "a new kind of warfare" / Scott Horton
Speaking law to power : lawyers and torture / Richard B. Bilder and Detlev F. Vagts
Torture : an interreligious debate / Joyce S. Dubensky and Rachel Lavery
section 2: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva Conventions, and international law. Unwise counsel: the war on terrorism and the criminal mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody / David W. Bowker
Rethinking the Geneva Conventions / Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr.
If Afghanistan has failed, then Afghanistan is dead : "failed states" and the inappropriate substitution of legal conclusion for political description / David D. Caron
War not crime / William H. Taft IV
section 3: On torture. Legal ethics and other perspectives / Jeffrey K. Shapiro
Legal ethics : a debate / Stephen Gillers
The lawyers know sin : complicity in torture / Christopher Kutz
Renouncing torture / Michael C. Dorf
Reconciling torture with democracy / Deborah Pearlstein
Great nations and torture / M. Cherif Bassiouni
Section 4: Looking forward. Litigating against torture : the German criminal prosecution / Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss
Ugly Americans / Noah Feldman
Relevant documents. 1: Taft-Haynes March 22, 2002 memo re: President's decision about applicability of Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban / William Taft IV to William Haynes, March 22, 2002
2: Bybee-Gonzales August 1, 2002 memo re: Standards of conduct for interrogation, aka the "Torture memo" / Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002
3: Levin-Comey December 30, 2004 memo re: legal standards applicable under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340-2340A / Daniel Levin to James B. Comey, December 30, 2004
JAG memos re: recommendations of the Working Group to assess the legal, policy, and operational issues relating to interrogation of detainees held by the U.S. Armed Forces in the war on terrorism, February-March 2003 / Jack Rives, Major General USAF memo, February 5, 2003 ; Jack Rives memo, February 6, 2003 ; Michael Lohr memo for the GCAF, February 6, 2003 ; Kevin Sandkuhler memo, February 27, 2003 ; Thomas Romig memo for GCAF, March 3, 2003 ; Lohr comments on March 6 report, March 13, 2003 (incorrectly dated 2002)
Afterthought: To the American people: report upon the illegal practices of the United States Department of Justice / Zechariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, Ernst Freund, Roscoe Pound, et al., May 1920.
Torture : the road to Abu Ghraib and beyond : panel discussion with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and Stephen Gillers
section 1: Democracy, terror, and torture. Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb / David Luban
How to interrogate terrorists / Heather MacDonald
Torture : thinking about the unthinkable / Andrew C. McCarthy
The curious debate / Joshua Dratel
Is defiance of law a proof of success? : magical thinking in the war on terror / Stephen Holmes
Through a mirror, darkly: applying the Geneva Conventions to "a new kind of warfare" / Scott Horton
Speaking law to power : lawyers and torture / Richard B. Bilder and Detlev F. Vagts
Torture : an interreligious debate / Joyce S. Dubensky and Rachel Lavery
section 2: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva Conventions, and international law. Unwise counsel: the war on terrorism and the criminal mistreatment of detainees in U.S. custody / David W. Bowker
Rethinking the Geneva Conventions / Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr.
If Afghanistan has failed, then Afghanistan is dead : "failed states" and the inappropriate substitution of legal conclusion for political description / David D. Caron
War not crime / William H. Taft IV
section 3: On torture. Legal ethics and other perspectives / Jeffrey K. Shapiro
Legal ethics : a debate / Stephen Gillers
The lawyers know sin : complicity in torture / Christopher Kutz
Renouncing torture / Michael C. Dorf
Reconciling torture with democracy / Deborah Pearlstein
Great nations and torture / M. Cherif Bassiouni
Section 4: Looking forward. Litigating against torture : the German criminal prosecution / Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss
Ugly Americans / Noah Feldman
Relevant documents. 1: Taft-Haynes March 22, 2002 memo re: President's decision about applicability of Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban / William Taft IV to William Haynes, March 22, 2002
2: Bybee-Gonzales August 1, 2002 memo re: Standards of conduct for interrogation, aka the "Torture memo" / Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002
3: Levin-Comey December 30, 2004 memo re: legal standards applicable under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340-2340A / Daniel Levin to James B. Comey, December 30, 2004
JAG memos re: recommendations of the Working Group to assess the legal, policy, and operational issues relating to interrogation of detainees held by the U.S. Armed Forces in the war on terrorism, February-March 2003 / Jack Rives, Major General USAF memo, February 5, 2003 ; Jack Rives memo, February 6, 2003 ; Michael Lohr memo for the GCAF, February 6, 2003 ; Kevin Sandkuhler memo, February 27, 2003 ; Thomas Romig memo for GCAF, March 3, 2003 ; Lohr comments on March 6 report, March 13, 2003 (incorrectly dated 2002)
Afterthought: To the American people: report upon the illegal practices of the United States Department of Justice / Zechariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, Ernst Freund, Roscoe Pound, et al., May 1920.
Summary
As a result of the work assembling the documents, memoranda, and reports that constitute the material in The Torture Papers the question of the rationale behind the Bush administration's decision to condone the use of coercive interrogation techniques in the interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist connections was raised. The condoned use of torture in any society is questionable but its use by the United States, a liberal democracy that champions human rights and is a party to international conventions forbidding torture, has sparked an intense debate within America. The Torture Debate in America captures these arguments with essays from individuals in different discipines. This volume is divided into two sections with essays covering all sides of the argument from those who embrace absolute prohibition of torture to those who see it as a viable option in the war on terror and with documents complementing the essays.
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