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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror : Agenda-Building Struggles.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317009795
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on TerrorDDC classification:
  • 320.014
LOC classification:
  • HV6432 .B347 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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