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
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 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introducing the term enemy combatant; value: Justifying harsh interrogations and torture; value: Asserting absolute power as commander-in-chief; value: Yaser Hamdi, American citizen; value: José Padilla, American citizen; value: Ali Saleh Kalah Al Marri, American resident; value: Preventive detention; value: Guantanamo and the road to the Supreme Court, 2002/2004; value: Why Guantanamo?; value: Martin Luther King Weekend, January 2002; value: The road to the Supreme Court; value: With a little help from the Cuban Iguana; value: A historic Supreme Court decision : Rasul v. Bush; value: Inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo; value: Interrogation log of a Guantanamo detainee; value: FBI report : July 29, 2004; value: Denial of treatment; value: Suicides at the base; value: Emergency response force; value: Hunger strikers and forced feeding; value: The Administration under siege, 2004/2006; value: Combatant status review tribunals (CSRTs); value: Government interference with attorneys; value: The Administration's legal position falters; value: Detainee Treatment Act of 2005; value: Winds of change, 2006/2008; value: A second historic Supreme Court decision : Hamdan v. Rumsfeld; value: The Military Commissions Act; value: The third Guantanamo case : Boumediene v. Bush; value: Supreme Court oral arguments; value: A parallel case on reviewing CSRT hearings; value: The return to war crime prosecutions : Hicks, Khadr, and Hamdan; value: Victory : Boumediene v. Bush; value: The evolution of extraordinary rendition; value: Case study : Khalid El-Masri; value: Case study : Maher Arar; value: Case study : Abu Omar; value: Violating human rights laws; value: John Walker Lindh; value: Richard Colvin Reid; value: Zacarias Moussaoui; value: The Lackawanna Six.