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- Title
U.S. WAR CRIMES: TORTURE AS OFFICIAL BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICY.
- Authors
Clarke, Alan
- Abstract
The article discusses the institution of torture as official policy during the administration of former president George W. Bush and its consequences in the U.S. It reveals that the domestic and international communities were surprised of the claimed lawfulness of such practice that Manfred Nowak, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is no longer willing to discuss the questions with the U.S. government. Sociologist Martha Huggins demonstrates that there are several conditions that are associated with systemic torture including hidden identities of interrogators and those interrogated, ideology of war against evil and a social control division of labor giving plausible deniability and obscured perpetrator's relationship to the violence.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TORTURE -- Government policy; UNITED States politics &; government, 2001-2009; SOCIAL conflict; HUGGINS, Martha; NOWAK, Manfred; BUSH, George W. (George Walker), 1946-; IDEOLOGY; TORTURERS
- Publication
National Lawyers Guild Review, 2009, Vol 66, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
0017-5390
- Publication type
Article