Rendition to Torture Clarke Hardback John Wiley & Sons 9780813552767

Rendition to TortureAuthor(s): Alan W Clarke\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813552767, 978-0813552767\nSynopsis\nUniversally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Nothing seemed extreme when it came to questioning real and imagined terrorists. Extraordinary rendition-sending people captured in the war on terror to nations long counted among the worlds worst human rights violators-hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. Torture lite or torture without marks became the norm for those in American [url] Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of official policy; how and why .