Democracy detained
Subtitle: secret, unconstitutional practices in the U.S. war on terror
By: Barbara J. Olshansky.
Contributors: Olshansky, Barbara.
Edition: A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781583226346
Subjects: Military courts -- United States; Due process of law -- United States; Detention of persons -- United States; Terrorists -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: America's secret prisoners; title: The vanishing of visitors and immigrants; title: The unprecedented presidential policy of indefinite investigative detention; title: Guantánamo : the legal black hole for military detainees; title: The CIA's ghost detainees; title: Secret cases, secret juries, and secret civilian courts; title: America's new secret military court system.