Abstract
Torture is legally banned worldwide but honored in the breach in a majority of countries, liberal democracies included. However, Europe’s commitment to banning torture, as a region, initially through the CoE and more recently through the EU, has arguably been the most successful in the world—at least until 9/11. This chapter considers the efforts by these two international organizations to monitor the conduct of intelligence agencies cooperating with each other and with the CIA.
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Carey, H.F. (2013). European Supranational Monitoring of Intelligence Agency Collaboration in Counterterrorism in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. In: Andreopoulos, G. (eds) Policing Across Borders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9545-2_5
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