
- 334 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- The Cuban Iguana and American Jurisprudence
- Foreword
- Opening
- PART ONE: MANIPULATING THE LAW
- PART TWO: LAWLESS DETENTIONS IN AMERICA
- PART THREE: LAWLESS DETENTIONS IN GUANTANAMO
- PART FOUR: FOREIGN PRISONS AND CIA BLACK SITES
- PART FIVE: DETENTIONS IN AMERICA WITH DUE PROCESS
- Closing
- Addendum: Visiting Guantanamo Bay
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index