Interr Tort

Interrogation and Torture

Group Members

• Barbra Ramos:
  • wiki user: rbcramos
  • email: rb_ramos@berkeley.edu
• Chris DuPuis:
  • wiki user: Chris Dupuis
  • email: dupuis@cs.washington.edu
• Dennis Galvin:
  • wiki user: dg
  • email: dgalvin@cs.washington.edu
• Eiman Zolfaghari:
  • wiki user: Eiman
  • email: eimanz@cs.washington.edu
• Sean Cardeno:
  • wiki user: Scardeno
  • email: calbebop@uclink.berkeley.edu

Starter Document

Interr_Tort_Starter

Potential Reading List / Resources

• Dershowitz, Why Terrorism Works

• Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago,

• Mackey, Interrogator's War.

• Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org
  • Torture: A Human Rights Perspective (new book by Human Rights Watch)

• Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org
  • Amnesty International Statement on Torture: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/stoptorture-260605-statement-eng (This was the first of 25 hits from entering 'torture' in Amnesty's site search).

• Geneva Convention(s):
  • Society of Professional Journalists: Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions: http://www.genevaconventions.org/
  • Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
  • Wikipedia article on Geneva Conventions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions

• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: http://www.ohchr.org/english/
  • also the following page has an extensive section of references on "HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE: PROTECTION OF PERSONS SUBJECTED TO DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT": http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/index.htm

• PBS Frontline piece (The Torture Question): http://www.pbs.org/frontline/torture/

• Washington Post expose on secretly run prisons in eastern Europe: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/01/AR2005110101644.html%3Fg%3D1

• Vanity Fair Article (November 2005): "Torture: Is it ever OK? Does it Make us safer?"

• CIA, Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983
  • Part 1: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/CIA%20Human%20Res%20Exploit%20A1-G11.pdf
  • Part 2: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/CIA%20Human%20Res%20Exploit%20H0-L17.pdf

• CIA, KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation, July 1963
  • Part 1: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/CIA%20Kubark%201-60.pdf
  • Part 2: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/CIA%20Kubark%2061-112.pdf
  • Part 3: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/CIA%20Kubark%20113-128.pdf