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Many People in the usa have condemned the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used in the Battle on Terror as a transgression of human being rights. But the United States has done almost nothing to prosecute past abuses or prevent future violations. Tracing this knotty contradiction from the 1950s to the present, historian Alfred W. McCoy probes the politics and cultural dynamics which have made impunity for torture a bipartisan coverage of the U.S. federal government. During the Freezing Battle, McCoy argues, the U.S. Central Intellect Agency covertly funded internal experiments designed to weaken a subject's level of resistance to interrogation. Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the CIA revived these harsh methods, while U.S. press was flooded with seductive images that normalized torture for many Americans. Ten years later, the U.S. acquired failed to punish the perpetrators or the powerful who commanded them, and continued to exploit intelligence extracted under torture by surrogates from Somalia to Afghanistan. Although Washington has publicly distanced itself from torture, troubling images from the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are seared into human being memory, doing prolonged harm to America's moral expert as a world leader. The reserve is published by University of Wisconsin Press.
