Abu Ghraib was not the work of a few bad apples, but the direct consequence, Hersh says, of "the reliance of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on secret operations and the use of coercion -- and eye-for-an-eye retribution -- in fighting terrorism".
Moreover, the tribunals were empowered to accept secret evidence, obtained through the torture, coercion or bribery of other detainees, which was not revealed to the defendants, and could not even be challenged.
Most countries have a requirement that elections are to be held by secret ballot, to prevent vote buying and coercion.
It adds an article to the criminal code that would criminalize the act of obtaining state secrets through means including deception, bribery, and coercion.
Thomas P. Puccio, a lawyer for Catskill Development, said in a motion filed last Friday in United States District Court in Manhattan that the previously secret tape recordings buttress the claim of economic coercion.
I respect the importance of a secret ballot, particularly when it protects the disadvantaged from intimidation or coercion.
The darker version — argued, for example, by Eli Zaretsky in his valuable cultural history of psychoanalysis, "Secrets of the Soul" — is that psychiatry became one of the instruments of soft coercion which liberal societies use to keep their citizens in line.
The secrets to making those marriages work were well-defined gender roles and lots of coercion.
Their masters were not pursuing their interests in secret; rather, slavery was underwritten by society's institutions and enforced through a brutal system of state coercion.
The Republican efforts to impede Mr. Johnson's candidacy have drawn charges of spying and coercion from Libertarians and countercharges from Republicans that the party had resorted to fraud while accepting secret help from Democrats.
