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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: politics of prisoner abuse
    sub title: the United States and enemy prisoners after 9/11
  name:
    name part: Forsythe, David P.
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: c2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 315 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "This is a book about U.S. policies toward enemy prisoners after the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on New York and Washington of September 11, 2001. It analyzes the central moral, political, and legal factors in the U.S. policy making process that led the George W. Bush Administration to abuse prisoners on a widespread basis. It also covers the early years of the Barrack Obama Administration"
  abstract: "When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11 addresses this issue directly. Covering moral, political and legal aspects, he examines the abuse of enemy detainees at the hands of the US. At the centre of the debate is the Bush Administration, which Forsythe argues displayed disdain for international law, in contrast to the general public's support for humanitarian affairs. He explores the similarities and differences between Presidents Obama and Bush on the question of prisoner treatment in an age of terrorism and asks how the Administration should proceed. The book traces the Pentagon's and CIA's records in mistreating prisoners, providing an account which will be of interest to all those who value humanitarian law"
  table of contents: 1. Torture and political morality in historical perspective -- 2. Political morality and the Bush administration -- 3. Bush lawyers : the politics of legal interpretation -- 4. The military : Afghanistan, Guantanamo, Iraq -- 5. The CIA : kidnapping, black sites, extraordinary renditions -- 6. Due process : military commissions -- 7. Prisoner abuse and the politics of transitional justice
  note: David P. Forsythe
  note: Includes index
  subject:
    topic: Political prisoners
    topic: Abuse of
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners of war
    topic: Abuse of
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
  subject:
    topic: Torture
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
  classification: HV8599.U6 F67 2011
  identifier: 9780521181105 (paperback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781107004665 (hardback : alk. paper)
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  record info:
    record creation date: 110309
    record change date: 20121127093000.0
    record identifier: 0000079911