This is a blog for the community of Geography 170: "Geographies of Violence in the Age of Empire" in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. This course explores a range of answers to the question: How might geographical thinking be used to critically explore new forms of violence and empire?


Oct 28, 2010

Article on the Torture Memos

Here is a pretty good article by Peter Brooks on the reasoning behind the torture memos--how is it that they were regarded as legal and made to comply with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment ?


Also, if you are interested in reading some of the memos yourself and seeing the chronology of their writing and the events surrounding them, check this page out from the American Civil Liberties Union
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