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Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons
by Clive Stafford Smith.
Weidenfeld, 307 pp., £16.99, April 2007,978 0 297 85221 6 Show More
by Clive Stafford Smith.
Weidenfeld, 307 pp., £16.99, April 2007,
“... Stafford Smith does not explicitly condemn the theorising of academics such as Alan Dershowitz or Michael Levin, but he implies that their rationalisations of torture may have helped to legitimate its use. Indeed, in urging his readers to link the armchair explanations of professors and policy-makers to the silence or racist abuse of soldiers and prison ... ”