Torture and Impunity
The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7307912 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Pallitto (Seton Hall University, corresponding author), R M Pallitto |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 488-490 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation, Alfred W Mccoy, 2012 |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jat230 |
| OpenAlex | W2096228903 |
| Language | EN |
Alfred W. McCoy notes that several times he has anticipated turning away from researching torture, but he has been drawn back to it repeatedly over the past two decades. After his 1999 study of torture practices in the Philippines (Policing America's Empire), McCoy produced his groundbreaking work A Question of Torture (2006). He has now followed that book with Torture and Impunity. For each volume, events compelled him to revisit questions of torture practices in the contemporary world: there were more developments to examine, more threads to connect. Just as McCoy has been compelled to return his scholarly attention to torture, so too have Americans been obliged to confront the reality of their government's torture practices time and again in recent decades. When the Senate's Church Committee (which investigated intelligence-gathering practices) reported in the mid-1970s on MKUltra (a secret government project, which ran from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, that conducted experiments dealing with mind control) and Operation Phoenix (a program to eliminate high-ranking Viet Cong leadership), the public learned about abuses perpetrated in Vietnam. Then came the covert actions in Latin America in the 1980s. involvement in torture was a thing of the past. However, the September 11, 2001, attacks brought torture back into the public consciousness—as new revelations surfaced and as commentators tried to explain and excuse them. We would like to think that we are done with it, but the “question of torture” is still with us
Criminology · Doctrine · Excuse · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Impunity · Interrogation · Political science · Sociology · Torture · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Torture, Ethics, and Law
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