Question of torture
Historian Alfred McCoy locates the roots of scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in a long-standing, covert program of interrogation. He traces the spread of abusive practices across the globe, from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, and argues that after 9/11, psychological torture became the weapon of choice in the CIA's global prisons. Scrupulously documented this book is a devastating indictment of inhumane practices that have damaged America's laws, military, and international standing.
