Unchecked and unbalanced
Subtitle: presidential power in a time of terror
By: Frederick A.O. Schwarz and Aziz Huq.
Contributors: Huq, Aziz.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781595581174
Subjects: War and emergency powers -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Law and legislation; Executive power -- United States; Presidents -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Flawed mandates : early years of the FBI and CIA; title: Revelations of the Church Committee; title: Reform and resistance : consequences of Church; title: Our torture policy; title: "Extraordinary rendition" and the wages of hypocrisy; title: Bringing war back home; title: Kings and presidents; title: The king's counsel.