Is torture ever justified? / Tamara L. Roleff, book editor. - Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2011. - 126 p. ; 23 cm. - At issue. International politics .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Enhanced interrogation methods are not justified or necessary / Barack Obama -- Enhanced interrogation methods are legal, justified, and necessary / Richard B. Cheney -- Torture is sometimes justified / Mirko Bagaric -- Torture is never justified / Becky Akers -- Coercive interrogation methods are necessary to protect the United States / John Yoo -- Waterboarding is torture / Christopher Hitchens -- Waterboarding is not torture / Andrew C. McCarthy -- It is difficult to know what is torture and what is not / Andrew Coyne -- Torture takes many forms / Khaled Shaik Mohammed -- Torture provides useful information / Michael Hayden and Michael B. Mukasey -- Other interrogation methods provide more reliable information than torture / Ali Soufan -- Torture raises questions about democratic values / Frida Ghitis -- Torture is permissible in a democracy / Mirko Bagaric and Julie Clarke.

ISBN: 9780737750911 (hardcover) 9780737750928 (pbk.) 073775091X (hardcover) 0737750928 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2010023162

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Torture.

LC Class. No.: HV8593 / .I8 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 364.6/7