Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clarke provides a comprehensive account of US engagement with torture and rendition during the War on Terror. Clarke delivers a multifaceted perspective on these practices, incorporating legal analysis, sociocultural discussion, and policy debate. By outlining the historical nature and international treatment of torture and rendition, the author provides context for the current use of these means and the rationales asserted by governments as to the necessity of their use to ensure national and international security. In response to these governmental claims, the book explores the potential costs—false information, monetary losses, wasted time, and moral stakes. Clarke specifically frames this debate by focusing his assessment on the war in Iraq. The book concludes with an examination of the complicity of other countries in rendition and torture, as well as the resulting backlash for these actions, which is significant because it illustrates that the US has not been alone in the employment of extraordinary means. Recommended."
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"When the United States sends a terror suspect to another country that is notorious for torture, that is known as extraordinary rendition. Alan Clarke's book on this topic is a major contribution to the history of a sordid chapter in the American experience." -- Marjorie Cohn * editor of The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Cultivating a Torture Culture
3. From Eichmann and Carlos "the Jackal" to Reagan and Clinton
4. Significant U.S. Renditions to Torture
5. State Secrets Privilege Trumps Justice:
Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan6. The Illegality of the Iraq War and How Rendition Sparked It
7. European and Canadian Complicity in Rendition and Torture
Notes
Index
