Contents: - Section one: Democracy, terror and torture - Section two: On the matter of failed states, the Geneva conventions, and international law - Section three: On torture - Section four: Looking forward etc.
The Torture Papers document the so-called ‘torture memos’ and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. These documents present for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have existed only piecemeal in the public domain. The Bush Administrati…