Our Nation Unhinged - The Human Consequences of the War on Terror

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25472-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001—and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Honigsberg, Peter Jan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chemerinsky, Erwin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

The Cuban Iguana and American Jurisprudence

Foreword by Erwin Chermerinsky

Opening

Part One: Manipulating the Law
Introducing the Term Enemy Combatant

Justifying Harsh Interrogations and Torture

Asserting Absolute Power as Commander-in-Chief

Part Two: Lawless Detentions in America
Yaser Hamdi, American Citizen

Jose Padilla, American Citizen

Ali Saleh Kalah Al Marri, American Resident

Preventive Detention

Part Three: Lawless Detentions in Guantanamo

I. Guantanamo and the Road to the Supreme Court, 2002-2004

Why Guantanamo?

Martin Luther King Weekend, January 2002

The Road to the Supreme Court

With a Little Help from the Cuban Iguana

A Historic Supreme Court Decision: Rasul v. Bush

II. Inhumane Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo

Interrogation Log of a Guantanamo Detainee

FBI Report: July 29, 2004

Denial of Treatment

Suicides at the Base

Emergency Response Force

Hunger Strikers and Forced Feeding

III. The Administration under Siege, 2004-2006

Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs)

Government Interference with Attorneys

The Administration's Legal Position Falters

Detainee Treatment Act of 2005

IV. Winds of Change, 2006-2008

A Second Historic Supreme Court Decision: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

The Military Commissions Act

The Third Guantanamo Case: Boumediene v. Bush

Supreme Court Oral Arguments

A Parallel Case on Reviewing CSRT Hearings

The Return to War Crime Prosecutions: Hicks, Khadr, and Hamdan

Victory: Boumediene v. Bush

Part Four: Foreign Prisons and CIA Black Sites
The Evolution of Extraordinary Rendition

Case Study: Khalid El-Masri

Case Study: Maher Arar

Case Study: Abu Omar

Violating Human Rights Laws

Part Five: Detentions in America with Due Process
John Walker Lindh

Richard Colvin Reid

Zacarias Moussaoui

The Lackawanna Six

Closing

Addendum: Visiting Guantanamo Bay

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law. He visited Guantánamo in May 2007. He is author of Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir (UC Press), among other books.