Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault

The treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, Guantánamo Bay, and far-flung CIA black sites after the attacks of 9/11 included cruelty that defied legal and normative prohibitions in U.S. and international law. The anti-torture stance of the United States was brushed aside in a manner contrary to the U.S. historical experience. Since then, the debate over the guarantee of American civil liberties and due process for POWs and detainees has grown...