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How Torture Became Mainstream

By Alfred W. McCoy, Amnesty International. Posted May 23, 2006.


The once-clandestine practice of torture is now an official weapon in the War on Terror.
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Alfred W. McCoy is professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of several books, including the recently published "A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror," "Closer Than Brothers" and "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade."

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