Our nation unhinged
Subtitle: the human consequences of the War on Terror
By: Peter Jan Honigsberg ; foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780520254725
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- -- Prisoners and prisons; 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)
Genres: Cases.
Description: Examines what the author sees as the Bush administration's manipulation of American and international law and its human consequences, especially as evidenced by the treatment received by people charged as enemy combatants in the War on Terror.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the term enemy combatant; title: Justifying harsh interrogations and torture; title: Asserting absolute power as commander-in-chief; title: Yaser Hamdi, American citizen; title: José Padilla, American citizen; title: Ali Saleh Kalah Al Marri, American resident; title: Preventive detention; title: Guantanamo and the road to the Supreme Court, 2002/2004; title: Why Guantanamo?; title: Martin Luther King Weekend, January 2002; title: The road to the Supreme Court; title: With a little help from the Cuban Iguana; title: A historic Supreme Court decision : Rasul v. Bush; title: Inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo; title: Interrogation log of a Guantanamo detainee; title: FBI report : July 29, 2004; title: Denial of treatment; title: Suicides at the base; title: Emergency response force; title: Hunger strikers and forced feeding; title: The Administration under siege, 2004/2006; title: Combatant status review tribunals (CSRTs); title: Government interference with attorneys; title: The Administration's legal position falters; title: Detainee Treatment Act of 2005; title: Winds of change, 2006/2008; title: A second historic Supreme Court decision : Hamdan v. Rumsfeld; title: The Military Commissions Act; title: The third Guantanamo case : Boumediene v. Bush; title: Supreme Court oral arguments; title: A parallel case on reviewing CSRT hearings; title: The return to war crime prosecutions : Hicks, Khadr, and Hamdan; title: Victory : Boumediene v. Bush; title: The evolution of extraordinary rendition; title: Case study : Khalid El-Masri; title: Case study : Maher Arar; title: Case study : Abu Omar; title: Violating human rights laws; title: John Walker Lindh; title: Richard Colvin Reid; title: Zacarias Moussaoui; title: The Lackawanna Six.