Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
Title | Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Margulies |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2007-07-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0743286863 |
Weaving together firsthand accounts of military personnel who witnessed the interrogations with the words of the prisoners themselves, Margulies exposes the chilling reality of Guantanamo Bay.
Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
Title | Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Margulies |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Due process of law |
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Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution
Title | Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Ball |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Focuses on the recent "Enemy Combatant Cases" to provide a stern critique of the legal and constitutional basis for the enormous expansion of presidential power during the Bush administration's "War on Terror," and the challenges (especially in the Supreme Court) that such expansion has inspired.
Unchecked And Unbalanced
Title | Unchecked And Unbalanced PDF eBook |
Author | Schwarz O. |
Publisher | The New Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-05-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1595587454 |
Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government. Through a constellation of non-public laws and opaque, unaccountable institutions, the current administration has created a “secret presidency” run by classified presidential decisions and orders about national security. A hyperactive Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice is intent on eliminating checks on presidential power and testing that power’s limits. Decisions are routinely executed at senior levels within the civilian administration without input from Congress or the federal courts, let alone our international allies. Secret NSA spying at home is the most recent of these. Harsh treatment of detainees, “extraordinary renditions,” secret foreign prisons, and the newly minted enemy combatant designation have also undermined our values. The resulting policies have harmed counterterrorism efforts and produced few tangible results. With a partisan Congress predictably reluctant to censure a politically aligned president, it is all the more important for citizens themselves to demand disclosure, oversight, and restraint of sweeping claims of executive power. This book is the first step.
Selling Guantánamo
Title | Selling Guantánamo PDF eBook |
Author | John Hickman |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2013-05-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0813047196 |
In the aftermath of 9/11, few questioned the political narrative provided by the White House about Guantánamo and the steady stream of prisoners delivered there from half a world away. The Bush administration gave various rationales for the detention of the prisoners captured in the War on Terror: they represented extraordinary threats to the American people, possessed valuable enemy intelligence, and were awaiting prosecution for terrorism or war crimes. Both explicitly and implicitly, journalists, pundits, lawyers, academics, and even released prisoners who authored books about the island prison endorsed elements of the official narrative. In Selling Guantánamo, John Hickman exposes the holes in this manufactured story. He shines a spotlight on the critical actors, including Rumsfeld, Cheney, and President Bush himself, and examines how the facts belie the “official” accounts. He chastises the apologists and the critics of the administration, arguing that both failed to see the forest for the trees.
Presidential War Power
Title | Presidential War Power PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Fisher |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
For this new edition, Louis Fisher has updated his arguments to include critiques of the Clinton & Bush presidencies, particularly the Use of Force Act, the Iraq Resolution of 2002, the 'preemption doctrine' of the current U.S. administration, & the order authorizing military tribunals.
Habeas Corpus After 9/11
Title | Habeas Corpus After 9/11 PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Hafetz |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2012-08-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 081472440X |
Examines the rise of an American-run global detention system, including Guantâanamo Bay, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, and secret CIA jails, and discusses efforts that are being made to challenge this new prison system through habeas corpus.