The 18 Traps of Counter-Terrorism - Some Lessons from the Nsa-Leaks (Paperback)

The author compares the political situation in the USA, the UK and his home country concerning civil rights and freedom after 9/11. What are the consequences of a restrictive policing approach and in the case of the USA, the future effects of torture? The authors uses documents, partly from government sources in the US and the UK when it comes to waterboarding. He can prove that torture never yields the thruth ftom those subjected to it. Quite the opposite, as he finds in government papers, torture never brings out the truth, it only damages its victims - and the political culture in which it is applied. Reinhard Kuck, who holds a degree in political science, is concerned with the social and political aftermaths of the encroachments of government politics on civil rights and freedom. He gives an ample collection of examples for increasing intolerance in the USA, the UK and Germany when it comes to the democratic rights of minorities. Read about lobbyism of those individuals that favoured waterboarding in the USA, how they avoided oversight by most members of Congress. Read about the most peculiar cases that occured in Britain when innocent persons were spied on by security forces. Read about the Germans and how they followed the American example. Read about the many innocent victims of the FBI and the CIA after 9/11 and how the Brits co-operated with their American friends. The author researched a great plenty of official documents lately released and many of those documents leaked by Edward Snowden to describe the situation and the traps that lurk behind a politcal approach to terrorism that might harm democratic values cherished by most Americans, Brits and Germans.