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999			_c592 _d592
001			173809070
003			OCoLC
005			20200701142939.0
008			071003s2008 nyum b a001 0 eng
020			_a9780230603905
040			_aAEA _cAEA _dAEA
050	0	0	_aK 5304 _b.Sa57 2008
100	1		_aSands, Philippe, _d1960- _91870
245	1	0	_aTorture team : _bRumsfeld's memo and the betrayal of American values _cPhilippe Sands.
250			_aFirst Edition
260			_aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2008.
264			_aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2008.
300			_axvi, 254 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index.
505	0		_aKick-Off -- The Path -- Comeback -- Responsibility.
520			_aOn December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of extraordinary rendition. From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how the Rumsfeld Memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention and holds the individual gatekeepers in the Bush administration accountable for their failure to safeguard international law.--Pub. description.
650		0	_aTorture (International law) _xHistory. _91871
650		0	_aHuman rights. _91872
942			_2lcc _cCIRC