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Is torture ever justified? / Tamara L. Roleff, book editor.

Contributor(s): Series: At issue. International politicsPublication details: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2011.Description: 126 p. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780737750928 (pbk.) :
  • 0737750928 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HV8593 .I8 2011
Contents:
Enhanced interrogation methods are not justified or necessary / Barack Obama -- Enhanced interrogation methods are legal, justified, and necessary / Richard B. Cheney -- Torture is sometimes justified / Mirko Bagaric -- Torture is never justified / Becky Akers -- Coercive interrogation methods are necessary to protect the United States / John Yoo -- Waterboarding is torture / Christopher Hitchens -- Waterboarding is not torture / Andrew C. McCarthy -- It is difficult to know what is torture and what is not / Andrew Coyne -- Torture takes many forms / Khaled Shaik Mohammed -- Torture provides useful information / Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey -- Other interrogation methods provide more reliable information than torture / Ali Soufan -- Torture raises questions about democratic values / Frida Ghitis -- Torture is permissible in a democracy / Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Enhanced interrogation methods are not justified or necessary / Barack Obama -- Enhanced interrogation methods are legal, justified, and necessary / Richard B. Cheney -- Torture is sometimes justified / Mirko Bagaric -- Torture is never justified / Becky Akers -- Coercive interrogation methods are necessary to protect the United States / John Yoo -- Waterboarding is torture / Christopher Hitchens -- Waterboarding is not torture / Andrew C. McCarthy -- It is difficult to know what is torture and what is not / Andrew Coyne -- Torture takes many forms / Khaled Shaik Mohammed -- Torture provides useful information / Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey -- Other interrogation methods provide more reliable information than torture / Ali Soufan -- Torture raises questions about democratic values / Frida Ghitis -- Torture is permissible in a democracy / Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke.

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