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Title Is torture ever justified? [electronic resource] / Tamara L. Roleff, book editor.

Imprint Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Gale Electronic Resource  Electronic Resource    ---  Available
Series At issue. International politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Enhanced interrogation methods are not justified or necessary / Barack Obama -- Enhanced interrogation methods are legal, justified, and necessary / Richard B. Cheney -- Torture is sometimes justified / Mirko Bagaric -- Torture is never justified / Becky Akers -- Coercive interrogation methods are necessary to protect the United States / John Yoo -- Waterboarding is torture / Christopher Hitchens -- Waterboarding is not torture / Andrew C. McCarthy -- It is difficult to know what is torture and what is not / Andrew Coyne -- Torture takes many forms / Khaled Shaik Mohammed -- Torture provides useful information / Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey -- Other interrogation methods provide more reliable information than torture / Ali Soufan -- Torture raises questions about democratic values / Frida Ghitis -- Torture is permissible in a democracy / Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke.
Access Access limited to licensed institutions.
Subject Torture -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Roleff, Tamara L., 1959-
ISBN 9780737750911 (hardcover)
073775091X (hardcover)
9780737750928 (pbk.)
0737750928 (pbk.)

 
    
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