This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring the agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting case studies of key media events from the UK and USA.
This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring the agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting case studies of key media events from the UK and USA.
Vian Bakir is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is co-editor of Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media and is author of Sousveillance, Media and Strategic Political Communication: Iraq, USA, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Studying torture, intelligence and media manipulation in the war on terror Strategic political communication, intelligence and its discontents: manipulating and challenging intelligence The rise of the torture-intelligence nexus The sousveillance failure of John Walker Lindh The surprise of sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the struggle to contain it The persistence of sousveillance: Baha Mousa and torture in the British military The absence of sousveillance: Binyam Mohamed and the British intelligence agencies' complicity in torture Conclusion References Index.
Contents: Studying torture, intelligence and media manipulation in the war on terror Strategic political communication, intelligence and its discontents: manipulating and challenging intelligence The rise of the torture-intelligence nexus The sousveillance failure of John Walker Lindh The surprise of sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the struggle to contain it The persistence of sousveillance: Baha Mousa and torture in the British military The absence of sousveillance: Binyam Mohamed and the British intelligence agencies' complicity in torture Conclusion References Index.
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