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Professor Darius Rejali of Reed College, author of the new book Torture and Democracy, points out that waterboarding was widely practiced by US occupation forces in the Philippines in the early 20th Century (something I ;ve discussed before). The effort to institutionalize the drone program may have been a bid to sustain the kill-not-capture preference of the Obama Administration (though the “disposition matrix” appears to have been an effort to invent some alternatives for live capture that Obama hasn ;t much . book | published | 1st print September, 2010 | ISBN 978-9-40000-005-6 | xlix + 301 pp. The Institutionalization of Tyranny by Paul Craig RobertsIt turns one ;s stomach to listen to conservatives bemoan the destruction of liberty by compassion while they institutionalize torture , indefinite detention in violation of habeas corpus, murder of citizens on suspicion and unproven accusation alone, complete and total . Cherif. “Returning . If we create a legal structure for limiting and controlling torture , we . Torture Without Accountability - The American ProspectAs Glenn Greenwald observes, the Obama administration created the Catch-22 that made prosecutions difficult by refusing to hold any of the decision-makers responsible for institutionalized torture . Even if we accept that . Eleanor Hensel ;s late husband returned home from World War II with a remarkable, handmade gift of gratitude — a book of poems and haunting, color drawings by Polish prisoners of one of Adolf Hitler ;s notorious concentration camps. Knowing it can teach us a lot about America ;s covert past, . Booktopia - The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush. Coady ;s review of a recent book by Bob Brecher, a book that deals only with the ;ticking time. L. Mitt ;s Administration likely would have included the architect of the torture program, Cofer Black, and a former CIA Director, Michael Hayden, who has repeatedly called for retaining the torture program. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. 37, Nos. It turns one ;s stomach to listen to conservatives bemoan the destruction of liberty by compassion while they institutionalize torture , indefinite detention in violation of habeas corpus, murder of citizens on suspicion and unproven accusation alone, complete . Cherif Bassiouni, distinguished research professor at DePaul University and CAIR-Chicago ;s Honorary Chairman, will be speaking about his book The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration. Is Anyone Responsible? Bassiouni, M. If we tolerate torture , but keep it off the books and below the radar screen, we compromise principles of democratic accountability. It is propitious that at this time, DePaul law Professor M. A new edition of his book , The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.PEA Soup: A dilemma for interrogational torture ?Several months back, Ralph ;s post on torture provoked a good deal of valuable discussion, so I wanted to draw attention to C.A.J. since those who would consider torture justified in a case such as that of Giefgen think so on account of the consequences of not employing torture) the institutionalisation of torture that this would require would - as I argue in my book - outweigh