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Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan : extraordinary rendition. by Pendleton, Don.;
Mack Bolan is having a hard time locating the ruthless Russian arms dealer he is supposed to take back to the United States to stand trial because the Russian dealer has made friends in high places, making him virtually untouchable.
Subjects: Fiction.; Bolan, Mack (Fictitious character); Arms transfers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Secrets, politics, and torture [videorecording] / by Gilmore, Jim,television producer,reporter.(CARDINAL)201826; Kirk, Michael,television director,screenwriter.(CARDINAL)222305; Wiser, Mike,television producer,screenwriter.; Kirk Documentary Group,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.(CARDINAL)309769; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),television producer.(CARDINAL)154259;
Editor, Steve Audette ; director of photography, Ben McCoy ; original music, John E. Low.Reporter, Jim Gilmore ; narrator, Will Lyman.Originally broadcast by PBS May 19, 2015.The dramatic story of the fight over the CIA's controversial interrogation methods, widely criticized as torture. Based on recently declassified documents and interviews with key political leaders and CIA insiders, the film investigates what the CIA did and whether it worked.Rating: TVPG.DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen ; stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Detention of persons; Extraordinary rendition; Torture;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Planes [large print] / by Baker, Peter C.,1984-author.;
"For years, Amira -- a recent convert to Islam living in Rome -- has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband's redacted letters from the Moroccan black site where he is imprisoned. She moves as inconspicuously as possible through her modest life, doing her best to avoid the whispered curiosity of her community. Meanwhile, Mel -- once an activist -- is trying to get the suburban conservatives of her small North Carolina town to support her school board initiatives, and struggles to fill her empty nest. It's a steady, settled life, except perhaps for the affair she can't admit she's having. As these narratives unfurl thousands of miles apart, they begin to resonate like the two sides of a tuning fork. And when Mel learns that a local charter airline serves as a front for the CIA's extraordinary renditions -- including that of Amira's husband -- both women face wrenching questions that will shape the rest of their lives."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Extraordinary rendition; Women; Adultery; Letters; Prisoners; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The rendition : a novel / by Ashforth, Albert.(CARDINAL)732077;
The brutal secret war to win Kosovo's freedom from Serbia is in full swing when The Rendition takes readers behind the headlines for an inside look at the United States' involvement. Alex Klear, a veteran intelligence officer, is sent to the Balkans on a hastily planned rendition which goes terribly bad. Alex decides it's time to retire. However, when he is persuaded to go to Germany as part of an operation connected to the rendition, he finds himself caught between two dynamic women, an old girlfriend and the female colonel running the 'op.' While there, he becomes a target of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a murder suspect to the German police, and for his superiors the perfect fall guy to take the heat for a badly botched secret operation. With Kosovo's independence declaration coming closer by the day, the secret war heats up and Alex comes to realize that he is at the center of a murky conspiracy aimed at making the United States an international pariah.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Ushtria C̨lirimtare e Kosovës; Extraordinary rendition; Intelligence officers; Kosovo War, 1998-1999;
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Planes / by Baker, Peter C.,1984-author.;
"An urgent, exciting, fiercely intelligent debut novel that goes deep inside the daily lives of two women-one in Rome, the other in North Carolina-to tell a story about the powerful interconnections, both personal and political, unseen and inexorable, that exist beneath the surface of our troubled world. For years, Amira-a recent convert to Islam living in Rome-has gone to work, said her prayers, and struggled to piece together her husband's redacted letters from the CIA black site where he is being detained. She moves as inconspicuously as possible through her modest life, doing her best to avoid the whispered curiosity of her community. Meanwhile, Mel-who thinks of herself as a lapsed activist-is trying to get the suburban conservatives of her small North Carolina town to support her school board initiatives, and struggling to fill her empty nest. Her life is uneventful, except perhaps for the affair she can't quite admit she's having. As these narratives unfurl thousands of miles apart, they begin to resonate like the two sides of a tuning fork. And when Mel learns that a local charter airline serves as a front for the US government's extraordinary renditions-including that of Amira's husband-these two women's lives seem destined to collide. Written with piercing insight and artistry, Planes is a singular, assured, and indelible first novel that announces a major new voice."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Extraordinary rendition; Political activists; Prisoners; Adultery; Women; Letters; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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Black site : the CIA in the post-9/11 world / by Mudd, Philip,author.(CARDINAL)605187;
The lean years -- risk avoidance -- the prelude to the program -- the CIA revolutionizes -- the problem with prisoners -- salt pit -- the first program prisoner -- the definition of pain -- the second wave -- the fateful decisions -- expansion and training -- maturation -- the program goes public -- endgame -- ethics and reflections.
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Qaida (Organization); Terrorism; Detention of persons; Extraordinary rendition; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Rendition [videorecording] / by Golin, Steve.(CARDINAL)843645; Viscidi, Marcus.; Sane, Kelley.; Hood, Gavin.(CARDINAL)848532; Gyllenhaal, Jake,1980-(CARDINAL)537580; Witherspoon, Reese,1976-(CARDINAL)340360; Sarsgaard, Peter.(CARDINAL)847505; Metwally, Omar.; Naor, Yigal.; Khouas, Moa.; Oukach, Zineb.; Arkin, Alan.(CARDINAL)348089; Streep, Meryl.(CARDINAL)333422; Anonymous Content (Firm)(CARDINAL)340621; Level 1 Entertainment (Firm); New Line Cinema Corporation.(CARDINAL)340619; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)356389; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485; Khouas, Mohammed.;
Director of photography, Dion Beebe ; editor, Megan Gill ; music, Paul Hepker, Mark Kilian ; costume designer, Michael Wilkinson ; production designer, Barry Robison.Jake Gyllenhaal, Omar Metwally, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Sarsgaard, Yigal Naor, Moa Khouas, Zineb Oukach, Alan Arkin, Meryl Streep.The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born wife wants to know what happened to her husband. A reluctant CIA agent begins to question his assignment after witnessing an unorthodox interrogation. A severe interrogator plys his trade on Anwar while a U.S. terrorism honcho is willing to turn a blind eye to the unpleasantness, especially if it stops a terrorist attack.MPAA rating: R; for torture/violence and language.DVD ; region 1 ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, stereo surround sound.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Extraordinary rendition; Political prisoners; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Questioning; Terrorism; Delitos políticos;
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Torture taxi : on the trail of the CIA's rendition flights / by Paglen, Trevor.(CARDINAL)283332; Thompson, A. C.(Adam Clay)(CARDINAL)323746;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205).In this first book to systematically investigate extraordinary rendition, an award-winning investigative journalist and a "military geographer" explore the CIA program in a series of journeys that takes them around the world. They travel to suburban Massachusetts to profile a CIA front company that supplies the agency with airplanes; to Smithfield, North Carolina, to meet pilots who fly CIA aircraft; to the San Francisco suburbs to study with a "planespotter" who tracks the CIA's movements; and to Afghanistan, where the authors visit the notorious "Salt Pit" prison and meet released Afghan detainees.
Subjects: United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Political prisoners; Torture; Intelligence service; Extraordinary rendition; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The forever prisoner : the full and searing account of the CIA's most controversial covert program / by Scott-Clark, Cathy,1965-author.(CARDINAL)344473; Levy, Adrian,1965-author.(CARDINAL)344471;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-441) and index.Mai pen rai -- I am the head motherfucker-in-charge -- Hani 1 -- Disgrace in their face -- The hell with Chris de Burgh -- Oh my god, I can be horrible -- A full-size American refrigerator, only taller -- Controlled death -- Boo boo -- Full-blown, full-tilt, bozo wild person -- Lost in space -- On-the-job training -- Allah will look into their hearts and know -- Zapping the dog for pooping on the rug -- Meow -- Strawberry Fields forever -- A torture ponzi scheme -- A great big terrarium -- Ego and hypocrisy. Nothing else matters -- They are liars, liars, liars! -- Bad guys become good guys and vice versa."Six months after 9/11, CIA and FBI agents captured Abu Zubaydah, mistakenly believed to be number three in the Al Qaeda hierarchy. Frantic to thwart a much-feared second attack, the U.S. rendered him to a black site in Thailand. There he collided with Air Force psychologist James Mitchell. Believing that Abu Zubaydah had been trained to resist interrogation, Mitchell and others were authorized to use brutal interrogation techniques that would have violated the Geneva Conventions, international rules andtreaties, and U.S. law had not government lawyers rewritten the human rights rulebook. The program metastasized over seven years, encompassing dozens of prisoners and multiple black sites. Ultimately, the U.S. Senate judged it was torture. As a result, numerous prisoners, including Abu Zubaydah, remain in Guantaanamo, never charged with any crimes because their trial would reveal the extreme brutality they endured. Based on four years of intensive reporting around the world, on multiple interviews with key protagonists on all sides who speak candidly for the first time, and on thousands of previously classified documents recently released by FOIA requests, The Forever Prisoner is a powerful chronicle of a shocking government initiative that in the end produced zero high-value intelligence, continues to influence U.S. policy to this day, and remains in the headlines twenty years after its inception. It is also a primary source for a feature-length documentary of the same title by Academy Award winner AlexGibney to debut on HBO on December 6, 2021. Held incommunicado for twenty years, Abu Zubaydah speaks for the first time in the pages of The Forever Prisoner"--
Subjects: ʻAbd al-Majīd, Zayn al-ʻĀbidīn Muḥammad Ḥusayn.; Mitchell, James E. (Psychologist); United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Extraordinary rendition; Intelligence service; Military interrogation; Political prisoners; Torture; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Machete : poems / by Morín, Tomás Q.,author.;
"This fresh voice in American poetry wields lyric pleasure and well-honed insight against a cruel century that would kill us with a thousand cuts. "Dios aprieta, pero no ahorca" ("God squeezes, but He doesn't strangle")--the epigraph of Machete--sets the stage for a powerful poet who summons a variety of ways to endure life when there's an invisible hand at your throat. Tomás Morín hails from the coastal plains of Texas, and explores a world where identity and place shift like that ever-changing shore. In these poems, culture crashes like waves and leaves behind Billie Holiday and the CIA, disco balls and Dante, the Bible and Jerry Maguire. They are long, lean and dazzle in their telling: "Whiteface" is a list of instructions for people stopped by the police; "Duct Tape" lauds our domestic life from the point of view of the tape itself. One part Groucho Marx, one part Job, Morín considers our obsession with suffering--"the pain in which we trust"--and finds that the best answer to our predicament is sometimes anger, sometimes laughter, but always via the keen line between them that may be the sharpest weapon we have"--
Subjects: Poetry.; American poetry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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