Liberalism, torture, and the ticking bomb

Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture: Contemporary Challenges to Just War Theory

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 249-262

  Luban, David ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892337013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4678-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

References (40)

1. Amy Argetsinger, "At Colleges, Students are Facing a Big Test, " Washington Post, September 17, 2001, p. B1.
2. Jim Rutenberg, "Torture Seeps into Discussion by News Media, " New York Times (November 5, 2001), p. C1.
3. Andrew McLaughlin, "How far Americans would go to fight terror, " Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 2001, p. 1.
4. Alan M. Dershowitz, Why Terrorism Works (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 158-161.
5. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, "U.S. Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) Holds a Hearing on the Federal Government's Counterterrorism Efforts, " FDCH Political Transcripts, June 8, 2004.
6. William Safire, "Seizing Dictatorial Power, " New York Times, November 15, 2001, p. A31.
7. Judith Shklar, "Putting Cruelty First, " in Ordinary Vices (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), p. 7.
8. Shklar, "Putting Cruelty First, " p. 43.
9. Jonathan Alter, "Time to Think About Torture, " Newsweek (November 5, 2001).
10. Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel, eds., The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 974.
11. Marites Danguilan Vitug and Glenda M. Gloria, Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao (Manila: Institute for Popular Democracy, 2000), p. 223.
12. Doug Struck et al., "Borderless Network Of Terror; Bin Laden Followers Reach Across Globe, "Washington Post, September 23, 2001, p. A1.
13. Oren Gross, "Are Torture Warrants Warranted? Pragmatic Absolutism and Official Disobedience, " Minnesota Law Review 88 (2004): 1501-1503.
14. Oren Gross Gross reminds us, however, that the catastrophic case can actually occur Minnesota Law Review 88 (2004): pp. 1503-1504.
15. Mark Bowden, "The Dark Art of Interrogation, " The Atlantic Monthly (October, 2003), pp. 65-68.
16. David Rousset, The Other Kingdom, trans. Ramon Guthrie (New York: Howard Fertig, Inc., 1982) (1947), p. 168.
17. J.J.C. Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), p. 93.
18. Williams suggests "that the unthinkable was itself a moral category. . . ." 1973 p. 92.
19. Seymour M. Hersh, Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (New York: HarperCollins, 2004), p. 45.
20. Seth Hettena, Associated Press, May 28, 2005, http://www.sfgate.com/ cgibin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/05/27/state/n171730D65.DTL
21. Jean Maria Arrigo, "A Utilitarian Argument Against Torture Interrogation of Terrorists, " Science and Engineering Ethics 10 (3) (2004), p. 6. at http://www.atlas.usafa.af.
22. M. Gregg Bloche and Jonathan H. Marks, "When Doctors Go To War, " New England Journal of Medicine 354 (January 6, 2005), pp. 3-6.
23. Michael Ignatieff, "The Torture Wars, " The New Republic, April 22, 2002, p. 42.
24. Bowden, "The Dark Art of Interrogation, " pp. 74-76.
25. Mark Osiel, Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt: Criminal Consciousness in Argentina's Dirty War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 40.
26. Osiel, Mass Atrocity, p. 120.
27. These are tabulated in the Schlesinger Report, The Torture Papers, pp. 965-67.
28. Chris Mackey and Greg Miller, The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against Al Qaeda (Boston: Little, Brown, 2004), pp. 479-83;.
29. Mackey and Miller, The Interrogators, p. 31.
30. R. Jones and M.G George, R. Fay, "Investigation of Intelligence Activities at Abu Ghraib, " in The Torture Papers, p. 1004.
31. Hersh, Chain of Command, p. 30.
32. Hersh, Chain of Command, p. 34.
33. Jones Fay Report, The Torture Papers, p. 990.
34. Hersh, Chain of Command, pp. 44-45.
35. Craig Haney et al., "Interpersonal Dynamics of a Simulated Prison, " International Journal of Criminology and Penology 1 (1973), p. 94.
36. , The Torture Papers, p. 971.
37. Philip Zimbardo et al., "The Mind is a Formidable Jailer: A Pirandellian Prison, "New York Times, April 8, 1973, §6 (Magazine), p. 41;.
38. Zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford University (1999), at http://www.prisonexp.org.
39. John Schwartz, "Simulated Prison in' 71 Showed a Fine Line Between 'Normal' and 'Monster', " New York Times, May 6, 2004, p. A20.
40. Virginia Law Review 91 (6) (October 2005), pp. 1425-1461.