Torture has been a topic of national discussion ever since it was revealed that -enhanced interrogation techniques- had been authorized as part of the war on terror. The United States and Torture provides us with a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture, one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to -enemies, - ever since.

The United States and Torture opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable...