Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

by Amrit Singh and Jameel Jaffer

Book Overview

When the American media published photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the Bush administration assured the world that the abuse was isolated and that the perpetrators would be held accountable. Over the next three years, it refined its narrative at the margins, but by and large its public position remained the same. Yes, the administration acknowledged, some soldiers abused prisoners, but these soldiers were anomalous sadists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231140533
• ISBN13: 9780231140539
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher