Publisher's Synopsis
SPECIAL BONUS MATERIAL: The U.S. government's own "how-to" on interrogation: Two CIA torture manuals. Since the attack on the Twin Towers on 9/11/2001, the United States has been engaged in what it has called a "War on Terror," an effort that has seen the nation engaged in the longest conflict in its history. In the days following the terrorist attack, several people in the administration of President George W. Bush argued, sometimes employing the "ticking time bomb" scenario, that any means, including torture, was justified in chasing down and capturing or killing those who had been instrumental in the slaughter of thousands of innocent Americans, and in carrying out the ongoing struggle against those who were thought to be planning another such attack. At the same time that the designers of this strategy were implementing this regime of torture they took pains to hide the true nature of what it was they were doing. In true Orwellian fashion, language was employed to disguise the actuality of their program. Torture was no longer torture. It was "enhanced coercive interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" for short (as if those being interrogated were simply going to be asked some really tough questions), or in the language of acronyms so loved by bureaucrats -- EITs. Terms which are not that far from the Gestapo's favorite euphemism -- "Refined Interrogation Techniques." SPECIAL BONUS MATERIAL: The U.S. government's own "how-to" on interrogation: Two CIA torture manuals.
