The American challenge
Subtitle: terrorists, detainees, treaties, and torture-responses to the rule of law, 2001-2008
By: Carl Q. Christol.
Publisher: University Press Of America
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780761843443
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001- -- Prisoners and prisons; Terrorism investigation -- United States; Rule of law -- United States; Prisoners of war -- Government policy -- United States; Human rights -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Problems and challenges; title: The Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CAT), December 10, 1984; title: Statutes dealing with or related to torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; title: American responses to the Third Geneva Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, August 12, 1949 and to the CAT; title: The Department of Justice memoranda relating to POWs, detainees, and to torture, 2002-2004; title: Department of Defense and Army investigations of violations of the laws of war in Iraq, 2003-2005, and corrective actions; title: Civilian employees of the United States go to war; title: The role of Congress : laws and procedures for the trial of unlawful detainees; title: The courts become engaged in and are confronted by serious and somewhat novel problems in the context of the separation of powers principle : leading cases; title: The decisions of military commissions, June 4, 2007, and subsequent proceedings; title: Department of Defense procedures for investigation and release of detainees; title: The new army field manual 2-22.3 September 6, 2006; title: The presidential directive of July 20, 2007 on CIA detentions and interrogations : new revelations and the continuing conflict between the White House and Congress; title: America and the rule of law; title: Conclusion.