Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power: Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential PowerSimon and Schuster, 3 iul. 2006 - 336 pagini In his address to the nation on September 20, 2001, President Bush declared war on terrorism and set in motion a detention policy unlike any we have ever seen. Since then, the United States has seized thousands of people from around the globe, setting off a firestorm of controversy. Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power explores that policy and the intense debates that have followed. Written by an expert on the subject, one of the lawyers who fought -- and won -- the right for prisoners to have judicial review, this important book will be of immense interest to liberals and conservatives alike. With shocking facts and firsthand accounts, Margulies takes readers deep into the Guantánamo Bay prison, into the interrogation rooms and secret cells where hundreds of men and boys have been designated "enemy combatants." Held without legal process, they have been consigned to live out their days in isolation until the Bush administration sees fit to release them -- if itever does. Margulies warns Americans to be especially concerned by the administration's assertion that the Presidentcan have unlimited and unchecked legal authority. Tracing the arguments on both sides of the debate, this vitally important book paints a portrait of a country divided, on the brink of ethical collapse, where the loss of personal freedoms is under greater threat than ever before. |
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... rules that bore only a passing resemblance to the procedures used in traditional criminal or military prosecutions. If convicted, de8 Introduction fendants would be sentenced to death, with no right 26662 Text 5/8/06 1:16 PM Page 7.
... rules that bore only a passing resemblance to the procedures used in traditional criminal or military prosecutions. If convicted, de8 Introduction fendants would be sentenced to death, with no right 26662 Text 5/8/06 1:16 PM Page 7.
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... rule of law is a virtue in its own right,a virtue that becomes moreimportant,rather than less,as the stakes increase. But like other civic virtues, the benefits of the law may not be immediately obvious. In fact, in times of public ...
... rule of law is a virtue in its own right,a virtue that becomes moreimportant,rather than less,as the stakes increase. But like other civic virtues, the benefits of the law may not be immediately obvious. In fact, in times of public ...
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... rule of law. One of the leading authorities on international law and the death penalty is a Minneapolis lawyer named Sandra Babcock.* Her career has followed a trajectory similar to my own, and she had the same reaction as I did to the ...
... rule of law. One of the leading authorities on international law and the death penalty is a Minneapolis lawyer named Sandra Babcock.* Her career has followed a trajectory similar to my own, and she had the same reaction as I did to the ...
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... rules governing the tribunals were still a work in progress, months, if not years, from completion. Should we do nothing until the trials began? What incentive did the United States have to start costly and potentially embarrassing ...
... rules governing the tribunals were still a work in progress, months, if not years, from completion. Should we do nothing until the trials began? What incentive did the United States have to start costly and potentially embarrassing ...
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... rule of law. For centuries we have understood that “[t]he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”17 The president himself captured ...
... rule of law. For centuries we have understood that “[t]he accumulation of all powers legislative, executive, and judiciary in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”17 The president himself captured ...
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