A Survey of Internet Resources on the Ethics of Torture

Lawrence M. Hinman:

• "The Right Fright." The Baltimore Sun, October 22, 2004, Op-ed.
• "The Problem with 'good vs. evil' Perspective," Baltimore Sun, June 6, 2004, Editorial p. 5C.
• "Do Hussein photos serve to inform or inflame?," San Diego Union-Tribune, July 25, 2003, B8.
• "Terrorism and the Rhetoric of Evil," San Diego Union-Tribune, November 28, 2001, p. B-7. Op-ed.
• "A Vision for Creating Lasting Peace, Justice." San Diego Union-Tribune, October 12, 20001, B7.
  
  

General Resources

• Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
• MCCAIN STATEMENT ON DETAINEE AMENDMENTS
• "The Ethics of Torture," PBS Religion & Ethics with Bob Abernathy
• Frontline, "The Torture Question." PBS
• RL32276 - The U.N. Convention Against Torture: Overview of U.S. Implementation Policy Concerning the Removal of Aliens, CRS report
• Torture Interrogation of Terrorists: A Theory of Exceptions (With Notes, Cautions, and Warnings), by Major William D. Casebeer;r JSCOPE 2003
• Can Interrogatory Torture Be Morally Legitimate? , by Robert G. Kennedy;r JSCOPE 2003
• A Consequentialist Argument against Torture Interrogation of Terrorists, Jean Maria Arrigo; JSCOPE 2003
• Terrorism and Torture, Fritz Allhoff, U. of Calif. Santa Barbara (UCSB)
• Torture and the Future, by Hajjar, in "Middle East Report Online"
• Rob Elder, "Bomb is ticking: do you OK torture?" Markkula Center for Ethics.
• Raimond Gaita, "Torture: thinking of the unthinkable" May 21, 2005
• Joe Galloway, "Military higher-ups get to the bottom of abuse scandals" Sept 28, 2005.
• Professor Søren Holm, " Lawyers and ethicists should be careful when talking about the permission of torture."
• On The Ethics And Politics Of Torture: Torture: A Collection, edited by Sanford Levinson (Oxford University Press, 2004). Excellent anthology, not on-line.
• John Perry, Torture: Religious Ethics And National Security (Paperback) Orbis Books, 2005.
• John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (Paperback) University of California Press, 2001.
• Neal Conan, "Debate over Modern Uses of Torture," Talk of the Nation, NPR
• John Yoo, "Commentary: Behind the 'torture memos' "
• The Torture Memo: "Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation under 18 U.S.C. 2340-2340A,"
• Overview of Torture Memos
• Jay Bybee, "Memo to Gonzalez on Torture of al Qaeda and Taliban captives "
• "Inside the Interrogation Room," CBC News: Disclosure--excellent program and web resources on false confessions.
• Sherwood F. Moran, "Suggestions for Japanese Interpreters Based on Work in the Field." Classic report by a Marine interrogator. See Stephen Budiansky, "Truth Extraction," The Atlantic, June 2005.
• KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation, CIA Handbook.
• Mark Bowden, "The Dark Art of Interrogation," The Atlantic, October 2003.
• Mark Dowden, "Lessons of Abu Ghraib," The Atlantic, July/August 2004,
• Bruce Hoffman, "A Nasty Business," The Atlantic January 2002.
• Jane Meyer, "The Experiment." The New Yorker, July 2005. Guantánamo interrogations.
• Jane Meyer, "Outsourcing Torture," The New Yorker, February 2005.
• Jane Meyer, "A Deadly Interrogation. Can the C.I.A. legally kill a prisoner?" The New Yorker, November 2005.
• Human Rights Watch, "Leadership Failure. Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division." November 2005.
• "Torture and Gonzales: An Exchange by G. Jan Ligthart, Robert S. Rivkin, Reply by Mark Danne" New York Review of Books, February 10, 2005.
• Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DOD Detention Operations (Schlesinger Report, 2004).
  
• Stanford Prison Experiments: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University

• Torture: A Collection, edited by Sanford Levinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); see especially the essays by Dershowitz, Scarry, Walzer and Shue and the Forward by Ariel Dorfman.
• Jacobo Timerman, Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number, translated by Toby Talbot (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)
• Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues, edited by Igor Primoratz (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
• John Conroy, Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).
• Torture: Does it Make us Safer? Is it Ever OK? A Human Rights Perspective, edited by Kenneth Roth and Minky Worden (New York: The New Press, 2005)
• The Torture Debate in America, edited by Karen J. Greenberg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, edited by Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel , Introduction by Anthony Lewis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Mark Danner, Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror (New York: New York Review Books, 2004)
• Sussman, David, 2005, "What's Wrong with Torture?", Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 33, pp. 1-33.
• Waldron, Jeremy, 2005, "Torture and Positive Law: Jurisprudence for the White House," Columbia Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 6, pp. 1681-1750.
• Allhoff, Fritz, 2003, "Terrorism and Torture," International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 105-18.
• Davis, Michael, 2005, "The Moral Justification of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment," International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 161-78.
• Dershowitz, Alan M., 2003, Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the Challenge, Yale University Press; New Ed edition (September 1, 2003)
• Seamus Miller, "Torture," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/torture/).