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DESCRIPTION:Alfred McCoy, author of "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the 
 Cold War to the War on Terror" will discuss his book at Revolution Books in 
 Berkeley on March 9th at 7:30 PM. \n\nJust issued in an updated edition in 
 paperback, A Question of Torture is a chilling and gripping history of how 
 the CIA developed torture interrogation techniques, over the course of 
 decades and at a cost of billions of dollars, helped spread the use of 
 those techniques to militaries and police academies in many countries who 
 were and are allies of the U.S., and has continued to use those techniques 
 right up to the current era in prisons such as Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. 
 Far from being a "few bad apples", guards and interrogators at Abu Ghraib 
 and Guantanamo were following the CIA's standard torture techniques, used 
 in Vietnam, Central America, and many other areas. \n\nWhile U.S. 
 interrogators have certainly never abandoned brutal physical methods, the 
 CIA's preferred torture technique is primarily psychological, involving 
 "sensory deprivation" and "self-inflicted pain", which attempt to destroy 
 the basis of personal identity. McCoy convincingly shows how the highest 
 levels of the Bush administration approved such methods, and the illegal 
 global "rendition" of prisoners to countries where torture is widely 
 practiced. Finally, McCoy convincingly argues that torture is not actually 
 a reliable method for obtaining valuable intelligence, yet is resorted to 
 by powerful elites in a time of crisis. \n\nAlfred Mc Coy is professor of 
 history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has also written The 
 Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and Closer than Brothers: Manhood at 
 the Philippine Military Academy .\n\nThis event is free, but donations are 
 welcome. This event is wheelchair accessible\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362611.php
SUMMARY:Alfred McCoy Discusses his book "A Question of Torture"
LOCATION:Revolution Books at 2425 Channing Way in Berkeley (cross street is 
 Telegraph)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362611.php
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