The United States and torture : interrogation, incarceration, and abuse / edited by Marjorie Cohn.

Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: An American policy of torture / Marjorie Cohn -- Mind maze : the CIA's pursuit of psychological torture / Alfred McCoy -- Torture and human rights abuses at the school of Americas : WHINSEC / Bill Quigley -- U.S. foreign policy, deniability and the political "utility" of state terror : the case of El Salvador / Terry Karl -- Fundamental human rights and the coercive interrogation of terrorists in an extreme emergency / John W. Lango -- Torture, war, and the limits of liberal legality / Richard Falk -- Outsourcing torture : the secret history of America's "extraordinary rendition" program / Jane Mayer -- This is to whom it may concern : a Guantanamo narrative / Marc D. Falkoff -- Psychologists, torture, and civil society : complicity, institutional failure, and the struggle for professional transformation / Stephen Soldz -- From Guantanamo to Berlin : protecting human rights after 9/11 / Michael Ratner -- Mass torture in America : notes from the supermax prisons / Lance Tapley -- The law of torture and accountability of lawyers who sanction it / Jeanne Mirer -- Terrorists and torturers / Philippe Sands -- Criminal responsibility of Bush administration officials with respect to unlawful interrogation tactics and the facilitating conduct of lawyers / Jordan Paust -- Torture, war, and presidential power : thoughts on the current constitutional crisis / Thomas Erlich Reifer.