The Torture Debate in America presents the arguments on torture that have been put forth by American lawmakers, human rights activists, and others. It raises the moral, legal and historical questions that have led the US into today's considerations on the use of torture. Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors xi Introduction: The Rule of Law Finds Its Golem: Judicial Torture Then and Now 1(12) Karen J. Greenberg THE ISSUES Torture: The Road to Abu Ghraib and Beyond 13(22) Panel Discussion with Burt Neuborne, Dana Priest, Anthony Lewis, Joshua Dratel, Major Michael (Dan) Mori, and Stephen Gillers ESSAYS Section One: Democracy, Terror and Torture 1 Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb 35(49) David Luban 2 How to Interrogate Terrorists 84(14) Heather MacDonald 3 Torture: Thinking about the Unthinkable 98(13) Andrew C. McCarthy 4 The Curious Debate 111(7) Joshua Dratel 5 Is Defiance of Law a Proof of Success? Magical Thinking in the War on Terror 118(18) Stephen Holmes 6 Through a Mirror, Darkly: Applying the Geneva Conventions to "A New Kind of Warfare" 136(15) Scott Horton 7 Speaking Law to Power: Lawyers and Torture 151(11) Richard B. Bilder and Detlev F. Vagts 8 Torture: An Interreligious Debate 162(21) Joyce S. Dubensky and Rachel Lavery Section Two: On the Matter of Failed States, The Geneva Conventions, and International Law 9 Unwise Counsel: The War on Terrorism and the Criminal Mistreatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody 183(20) David W. Bowker 10 Rethinking the Geneva Conventions 203(11) Lee A. Casey and David B. Rivkin, Jr. 11 If Afghanistan Has Failed, Then Afghanistan Is Dead: "Failed States" and the Inappropriate Substitution of Legal Conclusion for Political Description 214(9) David D. Caron 12 War Not Crime 223(6) William H. Taft IV Section Three: On Torture 13 Legal Ethics and Other Perspectives 229(7) Jeffrey K. Shapiro 14 Legal Ethics: A Debate 236(5) Stephen Gillers 15 The Lawyers Know Sin: Complicity in Torture 241(6) Christopher Kutz 16 Renouncing Torture 247(6) Michael C. Dorf 17 Reconciling Torture with Democracy 253(3) Deborah Pearlstein 18 Great Nations and Torture 256(5) M. Cherif Bassiouni Section Four: Looking Forward 19 Litigating Against Torture: The German Criminal Prosecution 261(6) Michael Ratner and Peter Weiss 20 Ugly Americans 267(16) Noah Feldman RELEVANT DOCUMENTS 1 Taft?Haynes March 22, 2002 Memo Re: President's Decision about Applicability of Geneva Conventions to al Qaeda and Taliban 283(34) William Taft IV to William Haynes, March 22, 2002 2 Bybee?Gonzales August 1, 2002 Memo Re: Standards of Conduct for Interrogation, aka the "Torture Memo" 317(44) Jay Bybee to Alberto Gonzales, August 1, 2002 3 Levin?Comey December 30, 2004 Memo Re: Legal Standards Applicable Under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2340-2340A 361(16) Daniel Levin to James B. Comey, December 30, 2004 4 JAG Memos Re: Recommendations of the Working Group to Assess the Legal, Policy and Operational Issues Relating to Interrogation of Detainees Held by the U.S. Armed Forces in the War on Terrorism, February?March 2003 377(18) February 5, 2003, Jack Rives, Major General USAF Memo February 6, 2003, Jack Rives Memo February 6, 2003, Michael Lohr Memo for the GCAF February 27, 2003, Kevin Sandkuhler Memo March 3, 2003, Thomas Romig Memo for GCAF March 13, 2003 (incorrectly dated 2002) Lohr Comments on March 6 Report AFTERTHOUGHT To the American People: Report upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice 395(10) Zechariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, Ernst Freund, Roscoe Pound, et al., May 1920 Index 405