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Christopher H. Pyle - Getting Away with Torture - 9781597973878 - V9781597973878
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Getting Away with Torture

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Description for Getting Away with Torture hardcover. That American forces should torture prisoners in their "war" on terror is disturbing, but more shocking still is that the highest officials of the Bush-Cheney administration planned, authorized, encouraged, and concealed these war crimes. Num Pages: 370 pages, 12 b+w photographs. BIC Classification: JPVH; JPWL; JWXK; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 698.
That American forces should torture prisoners in their “war” on terror is disturbing, but more shocking still is that the highest officials of the Bush-Cheney administration planned, authorized, encouraged, and concealed these war crimes. When the Supreme Court ruled that the officials were bound by the Geneva Conventions, a Republican Congress responded by granting amnesty to all responsible, from lowly interrogators to the president, while conservative judges erected a wall of secrecy to protect them even from civil liability. Meanwhile, timid Democrats have shown little stomach for repealing the amnesty law and bringing those responsible to justice.

Many Americans, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781597973878
SKU
V9781597973878
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-13

About Christopher H. Pyle
In 1970, Christopher Pyle disclosed the military’s surveillance of civilian politics in a pair of award-winning articles. As a former captain in Army intelligence, he also recruited 125 former agents to tell what they knew about that spying to Congress, the courts, and the press. Those disclosures ended the Army’s domestic spying and began a series of investigations into the ... Read more

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