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Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
Palgrave Macmillan
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0230603904
EAN: 9780230603905
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald
Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that
listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques
that defied international definitions of torture. The
Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation
practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan,
Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of
extraordinary rendition. From a behind-the-scenes vantage
point, Phillipe Sands investigates how the Rumsfeld Memo
set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention
and the Torture Convention and holds the individual
gatekeepers in the Bush administration accountable for
their failure to safeguard international law. The Torture Team delves deep into the Bush administration
to reveal:
· How the policy of abuse originated with Donald
Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, and was promoted
by their most senior lawyers
· Personal accounts, through interview, of those
most closely involved in the decisions
· How the Joint Chiefs and normal military
decision-making processes were circumvented
· How Fox TV’s 24 contributed to torture planning
· How interrogation techniques were approved for use
· How the new techniques were used on Mohammed Al
Qahtani, alleged to be “the 20th highjacker”
· How the senior lawyers who crafted the policy of
abuse exposed themselves to the risk of war crimes charges
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