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The Torture Files.
- Source :
- TIME Magazine; 1/17/2005, Vol. 165 Issue 3, p42-44, 3p, 5 Color Photographs
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Discusses how the Senate confirmation hearing of Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales reopened questions about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and elsewhere. How Gonzales played a large role in orchestrating a change in U.S. policy on the definition of torture; Reason why the policy was changed, justified by the nature of terrorist prisoners; Analysis of what went wrong in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, where the deaths of several inmates are being investigated.
- Subjects :
- PRISONERS
MILITARY ethics
TERRORISTS
QUESTIONING
TORTURE
INTERNATIONAL law
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0040781X
- Volume :
- 165
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- TIME Magazine
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 15599229