1. Two thousand years of torture -- 2. Mind control -- 3. Propagating torture -- 4. War on terror -- 5. Impunity in America -- 6. The question of torture
Summary
"In this revelatory account of the CIA's secret fifty-years effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed. A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation."--BOOK JACKET