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Our nation unhinged : the human consequences of the War on Terror /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Honigsberg, Peter Jan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]
Subjects:
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.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Cuba > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base > Cases.
Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Guantanamo and the road to the Supreme Court, 2002-2004
  • Why Guantanamo?
  • Martin Luther King weekend, January 2002
  • The road to the Supreme Court
  • With a little help from the Cuban Iguana
  • A historic Supreme Court decision : Rasul v. Bush
  • Inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo
  • Interrogation log of a Guantanamo detainee
  • FBI report : July 29, 2004
  • Denial of treatment
  • Suicides at the base
  • The emergency response force
  • Hunger strikers and force-feeding
  • The Administration under siege, 2004-2006
  • Combatant Status Review Tribunals
  • Administrative review boards
  • Government interference with attorneys
  • The Administration's legal position falters
  • Winds of change, 2006-2008
  • A second historic Supreme Court decision : Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
  • The Military Commissions Act
  • The third Guantanamo case : Boumediene v. Bush
  • Supreme Court oral arguments
  • A parallel case on reviewing CSRT hearings
  • The return to war crime prosecutions : Hicks, Khadr, and Hamdan
  • Victory : Boumediene v. Bush
  • Another blow to the Administration : Parhat v. Gates
  • 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.