All you want or need to know about U.S. torture in a single interview

A new expose ["A Question of Torture: C.I.A. Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror," by Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison] gives an account of the C.I.A.'s secret efforts to develop new forms of torture, spanning half a century. It reveals how the C.I.A. perfected its methods, distributing them across the world, from Vietnam to Iran to Central America, uncovering the roots of the Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo torture scandals.

(from democracy now's february 17 interview of professor mccoy conducted by amy goodman, excerpted in alternet... the full transcript is available at democracynow.org...)

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