Abstract

Although torture (United Nations, 1984) is defined in international law as a crime that can never be justified, US attorneys and other officials in the Bush-Cheney administration established a policy of systematic torture by using the credibility of science and medicine to manufacture the lie that acts of torture could be considered ‘‘safe, legal and effective’’ ‘‘enhanced interrogation’’ techniques (EITs), and by claiming that such acts were necessary to obtain actionable

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