Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values

"The parallel with Nazi Germany's descent into immorality is impossible to escape. This may well be the most important book to emerge since 9/11." ―Robert Harris, bestselling author of Conclave

On December 2, 2002 the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation—techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later ...