The politics of prisoner abuse : the United States and enemy prisoners after 9/11
"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 pri...
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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