Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror : Agenda-Building Struggles.
Bakir, Vian.
Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror : Agenda-Building Struggles. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (328 pages) - Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series . - Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Studying Torture, Intelligence and Media Manipulation in the War on Terror -- 2: Strategic Political Communication, Intelligence and its Discontents: Manipulating and Challenging Intelligence -- 3: The Rise of the Torture-Intelligence Nexus -- 4: The Sousveillance Failure of John Walker Lindh -- 5: The Surprise of Sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the Struggle to Contain it -- 6: The Persistence of Sousveillance: Baha Mousa and Torture in the British Military -- 7: The Absence of Sousveillance: Binyam Mohamed and British Intelligence Agencies' Complicity in Torture -- 8: Conclusion -- References -- Index.
This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror.
9781317009795
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
HV6432 .B347 2016
320.014
Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror : Agenda-Building Struggles. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (328 pages) - Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series . - Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1: Studying Torture, Intelligence and Media Manipulation in the War on Terror -- 2: Strategic Political Communication, Intelligence and its Discontents: Manipulating and Challenging Intelligence -- 3: The Rise of the Torture-Intelligence Nexus -- 4: The Sousveillance Failure of John Walker Lindh -- 5: The Surprise of Sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the Struggle to Contain it -- 6: The Persistence of Sousveillance: Baha Mousa and Torture in the British Military -- 7: The Absence of Sousveillance: Binyam Mohamed and British Intelligence Agencies' Complicity in Torture -- 8: Conclusion -- References -- Index.
This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror.
9781317009795
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009-Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
HV6432 .B347 2016
320.014