هیولاها: درون سیاست‌های مخفیانه بازجویی و شکنجه در جنگ ترور آمریکا

__Monstering__ is a gripping and important exposé that reaches well beyond the frame of the notorious photos to provide a vital examination of the under-investigated crimes of Abu Ghraib In April 2004, The Abu Ghraib Photographs Set Off An International Scandal. Yet Until Now, The Full Story Has Never Been Told. Tara Mckelvey -- The First U.s. Journalist To Speak With Female Prisoners From Abu Ghraib -- Traveled To The Middle East And Across The United States To Seek Out Victims And Perpetrators. Mckelvey Tells How Soldiers, Acting In An Atmosphere That Encouraged Abuse And Sadism, Were Unleashed On A Prison Population Of Which The Vast Majority, According To Army Documents, Were Innocent Civilians. Drawing Upon Critical Sources, She Discloses A Series Of Explosive Revelations: An Exclusive Jailhouse Interview With Lynndie England Connects The Abu Ghraib Pictures To Lewd Vacation Photos Taken By England's Boyfriend Charles Graner; Formerly Undisclosed Videotapes Show Soldiers Robotripping On Cocktails Of Over-the-counter Drugs While Pretending To Stab Detainees; New Material Sheds Light On Accusations Against An American Suspected Of Raping An Iraqi Child; And First-hand Accounts Suggest The Use Of High-voltage Devices, Sexual Humiliation And Pharmaceutical Drugs On Iraqi Prisoners. She Also Provides An Inside Look At Justice Department Theories Of Presidential Power To Show How The Many Abuses Were Licensed By The Government. Pt. I. The Path To Abu Ghraib -- Robotripping At Abu Ghraib -- The Torture Memo -- Lynndie In Love -- Under Contract -- Thirty Miles From Camp Victory -- Pt. Ii. War Crimes -- Counterinsurgency Operations -- The Night Shift -- The Interrogator -- The Sweet Shop Of Abu Ghraib -- The Translator -- The Playboy -- Blackout -- Pt. Iii. Investigation -- Brass Tacks -- Photographic Evidence -- Collateral Damage -- State Secrets -- The Other Hooded Man -- The List -- Pt. Iv. Judgment -- Discovery Phase -- The Brig -- Epilogue. Tara Mckelvey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [259]-261) And Index. In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has never been told. Tara McKelvey -- the first U.S. journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib -- traveled to the Middle East and across the United States to seek out victims and perpetrators. McKelvey tells how soldiers, acting in an atmosphere that encouraged abuse and sadism, were unleashed on a prison population of which the vast majority, according to army documents, were innocent civilians. Drawing upon critical sources, she discloses a series of explosive revelations: An exclusive jailhouse interview with Lynndie England connects the Abu Ghraib pictures to lewd vacation photos taken by England's boyfriend Charles Graner; formerly undisclosed videotapes show soldiers "Robotripping" on cocktails of over-the-counter drugs while pretending to stab detainees; new material sheds light on accusations against an American suspected of raping an Iraqi child; and first-hand accounts suggest the use of high-voltage devises, sexual humiliation and pharmaceutical drugs on Iraqi prisoners. She also provides an inside look at Justice Department theories of presidential power to show how the many abuses were licensed by the government.

monstering Is A Gripping And Important Exposé That Reaches Well Beyond The Frame Of The Notorious Photos To Provide A Vital Examination Of The Under-investigated Crimes Of Abu Ghraib

the New York Times - Jonathan Mahler

monstering Is A Book Of Reportage. This Is Not To Say That Mckelvey Makes An Effort To Conceal Her Own Outrage At What Went On At Abu Ghraib, But Rather That She Is Less Interested In Exploring How This Great Moral And Institutional Failure Came To Pass—the Toxic Mix Of Fatally Misguided Policy And Undisciplined Soldiers And Interrogators—than In Depicting What, Precisely, Went On Behind The Prison's Cinder-block Walls. In Describing Such Scenes, She Uses Her Rigorous Reporting To Fine Effect, Drawing On Her Interviews With Detainees To Reconstruct Their Haunting Accounts In Straightforward, Lucid Prose.

An investigative report on the abuses committed by American private contractors, soldiers, and officers at prison camps describes the victimization of prisoners at Abu Ghraib while explaining how their abusers were operating outside of the U.S. criminal legal system and may never be brought to justice. Monstering is a gripping and important expose that reaches well beyond the frame of the notorious photos to provide a vital examination of the under-investigated crimes of Abu Ghraib