Torture and the Third Degree
b'Was the post-9/11 use of torture by U.S. personnel unprecedented, as many have claimed? Alexa Koenig reveals that in the early decades of the twentieth century, police in the U.S. routinely employed torture during interrogations. Koenig draws parallels between those abuses, which were part of a cluster of practices known as \\u201cthe third degree,\\u201d and the coercive interrogation techniques used after 9/11.\\nAnderson and Nussbaum, eds., Confronting Torture: Essays on the Ethics, Legality, History, and Psychology of Torture Today University of Chicago Press, 2018\\nThe Human Rights Center\\nStover, Peskin and Koenig, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror University of California Press, 2017\\nThe post Torture and the Third Degree appeared first on KPFA.'