What Constitutes Torture?

What limits should be placed on government interrogators who question terror suspects?

Tara McKelvey wrote the book Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War, which examines the pattern of detainee abuse in Iraq.

McKelvey, a senior editor at the American Prospect, was the first American journalist to speak with female Abu Ghraib prisoners.

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Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War

by Tara Mckelvey

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