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Douglas A. Johnson and Alberto Mora, The Strategic Costs of Torture. read |
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Alex Emmons, Major New Court Ruling Says “Even the President” Can’t Declare Torture Lawful . read |
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Douglas A. Johnson and Alberto Mora, The Strategic Costs of Torture. read |
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Marjorie Cohn, Abu Zubaydah: Torture’s “Poster Child” read Charles Webel, The Ethics and Efficacy of the War on Terrorism: Fighting Terror without Terror? Or How to Give Peace a Chance. read Douglas A. Johnson, Alberto Mora, and Averell Schmidt, The Strategic Costs of Torture. How “Enhanced Interrogation” Hurt America. “Yet torture is not the answer. Far from being a weapon of strength, it has proved to be a strategic liability, a careless shortcut used by those too hasty to conduct a proper analysis and too shortsighted to anticipate its consequences. In the words of John Hutson, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, “Torture is the technique of choice of the lazy, stupid, and pseudo-tough.” We can—we must—do better.” read |
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Douglas A. Johnson, Alberto Mora, and Averell Schmidt, The Strategic Costs of Torture. “Far from being a weapon of strength, it has proved to be a strategic liability, a careless shortcut used by those too hasty to conduct a proper analysis and too shortsighted to anticipate its consequences. In the words of John Hutson, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, “Torture is the technique of choice of the lazy, stupid, and pseudo-tough.” We can—we must—do better.” read How “Enhanced Interrogation” Hurt America |
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Cora Currier: WH “playbook” for terrorist killing/capture. read |
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Chelsea Manning on facing the government alone. read |
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Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel speech. read |
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Nadia Prupis: New CIA documents on torture under Bush. read |
