Campaigning for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama offered an impassioned denunciation of the "enhanced" interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration in its War on Terror--methods that included sensory deprivation, self-inflicted pain, and waterboarding. But four years later America ha[...]

Describes the CIA's development and use of psychological torture, from the Cold War to the post-September 11th era, detailing the use of isolation, hooding, extremes of temperature, the manipulation of time, and other techniques and assessing the implications of such inhumane practices. Reprint.[...]