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Torture Team

Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values

by Philippe Sands

Hardcover, 254 pages, St Martins Pr, List Price: $26.95 |

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Torture Team
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Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
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Philippe Sands

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Offers a study of a document, signed by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in December 2002, that authorized the use of eighteen controversial interrogation techniques that were used at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and set the stage for a betrayal of the Geneva Convention.

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Spanish Court To Investigate Bush's 'Torture Team'

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A book about the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay has led to an investigation by the Spanish court. In Torture Team, Philippe Sands alleges that high-ranking members of the Bush administration were responsible for instituting harsh interrogation tactics.

Spanish Court To Investigate Bush's 'Torture Team'

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'Torture Team' Questions Interrogation Changes

Torture Team, a book by lawyer and author Philippe Sands, pulls together the results of interviews with the people in the United States government who decided to use harsh tactics in detainee interrogations.

'Torture Team' Questions Interrogation Changes

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