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| Title | : | The Torturer in the Mirror |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (842 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583229132 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 80 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
Before the US invasion of Iraq, before the American public saw the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, the CIA went to the White House with a question: What, according to the Constitution, was the line separating interrogation from torture—and could that line be moved? The White House lawyers' answer—in the form of legal documents later known as the "Torture Memos"—became the US's justification for engaging in torture.The Torturer in the Mirror shows us how when one of us tortures, we are all implicated in the crime. In three uncompromising essays, Iraqi dissident Haifa Zangana, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and professor of sociology Thomas Ehrlich Reifer teach us how physically and psychologically insidious torture is, how deep a mark it leaves on both its victims and its practitioners, and how necessary it is for us as a society to hold torturers accountable.
Zangana references the Abu Ghraib atrocities as the point when Iraqis began to "compare Saddam's regime with the brutality of the occupation," explaining that "Saddam's regime, unlike the U.S. All rights reserved. Combined, these works by Zangana, an Iraqi dissident and one-time political prisoner under Saddam Hussein, former U.S. . Three scorching essays admonish the Bush administration and outline how it "willfully violated the Geneva Conventions" following 9/11. administration, did not claim to promote human rights and democracy." Those Ameri
. He served as attorney general of the United States during the Johnson Administration. THOMAS EHRLICH REIFER is an educator from California.HAIFA ZANGANA is an Iraqi political commentator, novelist, and former prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime. He is actively engaged in practice of law, in fields of law, peace, disarmament, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, voting rights, health, education, and others. RAMSEY CLARK is an attorney, teacher and writer. S
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