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Author Pyle, Christopher H.

Title Getting away with torture : secret government, war crimes, and the rule of law / Christopher H. Pyle.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2009]
©2009

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-321) and index.
Contents A policy of torture -- Unleashing the dogs of war -- Torture by proxy -- Signaling permission -- Covering up -- The war criminals -- Torture reconsidered -- Congress : the enablers -- Judicial complicity -- Why do they hate our freedoms? -- Restoring the rule of law.
Note Print version record.
Subject Torture -- Government policy -- United States.
Prisoners of war -- Abuse of -- United States.
Secrecy -- Political aspects -- United States.
War crimes -- United States.
Rule of law -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century.
Terrorismus.
Bekämpfung.
Folter.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pyle, Christopher H. Getting away with torture. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, ©2009 9781597973878 (DLC) 2009003324 (OCoLC)300721974
ISBN 9781597976213 (electronic bk.)
1597976210 (electronic bk.)
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