Mainstreaming Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States - Rebecca Gordon - Google Books

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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was…