Our nation unhinged : the human consequences of the War on Terror / / Peter Jan Honigsberg ; foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky

• Autore: Honigsberg Peter Jan
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 345.73/056
• Soggetto topico: Prisoners of war - Legal status, laws, etc - United States; Detention of persons - United States; Human rights - Government policy - United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Prisoners of war - Legal status, laws, etc - Cuba - Guantanamo Bay Naval Base; Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- The Cuban Iguana and American Jurisprudence -- Foreword -- Opening -- INTRODUCING THE TERM ENEMY COMBATANT -- JUSTIFYING HARSH INTERROGATIONS AND TORTURE -- ASSERTING ABSOLUTE POWER AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF -- YASER HAMDI, AMERICAN CITIZEN -- JOSE PADILLA, AMERICAN CITIZEN -- ALI SALEH KALAH AL MARRI , AMERICAN RESIDENT -- PREVENTIVE DETENTION -- I. Guantanamo and the Road to the Supreme Court, 2002 - 2004 -- II. Inhumane Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo -- III. The Administration under Siege, 2004 - 2006 -- IV. Winds of Change, 2006 - 2008 -- THE EVOLUTION OF EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION -- CASE STUDY: KHALID EL-MASRI -- CASE STUDY: MAHER ARAR -- CASE STUDY: ABU OMAR -- VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS -- JOHN WALKER LINDH -- RICHARD COLVIN REID -- ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI -- THE LACKAWANNA SIX -- Closing -- Addendum: Visiting Guantanamo Bay -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001-and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.
• Titolo autorizzato: Our nation unhinged
• ISBN: 1-282-77249-X; 9786612772498; 0-520-94312-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816875303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II