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Benjamin WittesPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Availability
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Benjamin Wittes offers the first nonpartisan critique of a crucial front in America?s war on terror?the legal battles fought by and among the Bush administration, the U.S. Congress, and the Supreme Court Six years after the September 11 attacks, America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. Moving beyond the stale debate between those fixated on the executive branch as the key architect of counterterrorism policy and those who see the judiciary as the essential guarantor of liberty against governmental abuses, Wittes argues that the essential problem is that the Bush administration did not seek?and Congress did not write?new laws to authorize and regulate the tough presidential actions this war would require. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- The law of September
- The administration’s response
- The real Guantanamo
- The necessity and impossibility of judicial review
- The case for Congress
- The twin problems of detention and trial
- An honest interrogation law
- Surveillance law for a new century
ISBN
- 9781594201790
- 159420179x
- 159420179x
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