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Author Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Title Our Nation Unhinged : the Human Consequences of the War on Terror
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The Cuban Iguana and American Jurisprudence; Foreword; Opening; PART ONE: MANIPULATING THE LAW; Introducing the Term Enemy Combatant; Justifying Harsh Interrogations and Torture; Asserting Absolute Power as Commander in Chief; PART TWO: LAWLESS DETENTIONS IN AMERICA; Yaser Hamdi, American Citizen; Jose Padilla, American Citizen; Ali Saleh Kalah al Marri, American Resident; Preventive Detention; PART THREE: LAWLESS DETENTIONS IN GUANTANAMO; I: Guantanamo and the Road to the Supreme Court, 2002-2004; Why Guantanamo?; Martin Luther King Weekend, January 2002
The Road to the Supreme CourtWith a Little Help from the Cuban Iguana; A Historic Supreme Court Decision: Rasul v. Bush; II: Inhumane Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo; Interrogation Log of a Guantanamo Detainee; FBI Report: July 29, 2004; Denial of Treatment; Suicides at the Base; The Emergency Response Force; Hunger Strikers and Force-feeding; III: The Administration under Siege, 2004-2006; Combatant Status Review Tribunals; Administrative Review Boards; Government Interference with Attorneys; The Administration's Legal Position Falters; IV: Winds of Change, 2006-2008
A Second Historic Supreme Court Decision: Hamdan v. RumsfeldThe Military Commissions Act; The Third Guantanamo Case: Boumediene v. Bush; Supreme Court Oral Arguments; A Parallel Case on Reviewing CSRT Hearings; The Return to War Crime Prosecutions: Hicks, Khadr, and Hamdan; Victory: Boumediene v. Bush; Another Blow to the Administration: Parhat v. Gates; PART FOUR: FOREIGN PRISONS AND CIA BLACK SITES; The Evolution of Extraordinary Rendition; Case Study: Khalid El-Masri; Case Study: Maher Arar; Case Study: Abu Omar; Violating Human Rights Laws
PART FIVE: DETENTIONS IN AMERICA WITH DUE PROCESSJohn Walker Lindh; Richard Colvin Reid; Zacarias Moussaoui; The Lackawanna Six; Closing; Addendum: Visiting Guantanamo Bay; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001--and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedi
Analysis 2001
21st century
afghanistan
america
american judicial system
american policy
american soldiers
bush administration
criminal investigation
dark
discussion books
engaging
foreign policy
guantanamo
human rights abuses
hunger strikers
imprisonment
injustices
intense
litigation
men at war
national security
nonfiction
political
september 11
terrorism
terrorist imprisonment
tragedies
trial
us constitution
war on terror
warfare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-293) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
SUBJECT Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp fast
Subject Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Detention of persons -- United States
Human rights -- Government policy -- United States
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base -- Cases
Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
Detention of persons
Human rights -- Government policy
Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
United States
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Chemerinsky, Erwin
ISBN 9780520943124
0520943120
9780520254725
0520254724
9786612772498
6612772492