Summary: Chain of Command E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 24

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Seymour M. Hersh's book: “Chain of Command: The Road form 9/11 to Abu Ghraib”.

This complete summary of "Chain of Command" by Seymour M. Hersh, a renowned American investigative journalist, gives an overview of his report on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and his examination of the reasons the Bush administration led the nation into a war on terror. Hersh uncovers the lies and obsessions of an administration blinded by ideology.

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To learn more, read "Chain of Command" and discover how the anger of a nation following 9/11 led to a dark and unforgiving war in the Middle East.

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Book Presentation: Chain of Command by Seymour M. Hersh

Book Abstract

In Chain of Command, Seymour M. Hersh brings together his breakthrough reporting on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal along with new revelations to answer the critical question of the last three years: How did America get from the morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to a divisive war in Iraq?

Hersh takes an unflinching look beyond the public story of President Bush’s “war on terror” and into what he believes are the lies and obsessions that led America into Iraq. In Chain of Command, he draws on sources at the highest levels of the American government and intelligence community for an unparalleled view of a crucial chapter in America’s recent history. Hersh presents a devastating portrait of an administration blinded by ideology and of a President whose decisions have made the world a more dangerous place for America.

About the Author

Seymour M. Hersh has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1993. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk Awards, and more than a dozen other prizes, many of them for his work at the New York Times. In 2004, he won a national Magazine Award for Public Interest for his pieces on intelligence and the Iraq war.

Summary of Chain of Command (Seymour M. Hersh)

Torture at Abu Ghraib: A Guantanamo Problem

In late summer of 2002, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst made a quiet visit to the detention center at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where an estimated six hundred prisoners were being held (many, at first, in steel-mesh cages that provided little protection from the brutally hot sun). Most had been captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan during the campaign against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The Bush administration had determined that they were not prisoners of war, but “enemy combatants” and that their stay at Guantanamo could be indefinite as teams of C.I.A., F.B.I., and military interrogators sought to pry intelligence out of them.

Getting the interrogation process to work was essential. While President Bush endorsed a series of secret memorandums that stated the prisoners had no rights under federal law or the Geneva conventions, he said that the detainees were nevertheless to be treated in a manner consistent with the principles of the Geneva Conventions – as long as such treatment was also “consistent with military necessity.”