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Controversy has arisen regarding U.S. treatment of enemy combatants
and terrorist suspects detained in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other
locations, and whether such treatment complies with U.S. statutes
and treaties such as the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other
Forms of Cruel and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
(CAT) and the 1949 Geneva Convention. This book summarises the
results of the review conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ),
Office of the Inspector General (OIG) regarding the Federal Bureau
of Investigations in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Afghanistan, and Iraq.
The focus of this book was whether FBI agents witnessed incidents
of detainee abuse in the military zones, whether FBI employees
reported any such abuse to their superiors or others, and how those
reports were handled. The OIG also examined whether FBI employees
participated in any detainee abuse. In addition, the authors
examined the development and adequacy of the policies, guidance,
and training that the FBI provided to the agents it deployed to the
military zones.
The time is the twenty-third century. Richard Cox is the commander
of the Johnson Point Space Surveillance Installation on Danovian
Prime. For five years there has been relative calm in this region
of interstellar space. An uptick in monitored subspace and regular
frequency radio traffic discloses disturbing calls for help, as
entire worlds in an area known as Gulf are being obliterated As
Cox, Executive Officer Genni Carr, and Prime Minister Jon Dewey
confer, the cause of this destruction has been transported for
hiding at the North Pole of their terrestrial moon Trinity by two
male Terran ne'er-do-wells and two female Dakkarosi denizens. An
ancient modified Expansion War-era Terran transport is spotted from
orbit by a vessel on routine patrol, as it's in the process of
unloading a huge block of ancient silver metal. The perpetrators
are apprehended and interrogated on Danovia. It's disclosed that
these Dakkarosi denizens ignited the spreading conflict by stealing
this object from the unknown and powerful Ypsilanti Empire As the
gravity of this situation is debated, they listen in stunned
disbelief: The Terran males have secretly ferried scores of
Dakkarosi to Trinity That act alone has now placed Danovia in the
cross hairs of the most lethal killing machine in the cosmos The
personnel of Johnson Point can only hold their breaths as this
situation spawned in the depths of interstellar space spirals out
of control in Volume 1 of "In The Crosshairs: The Interstellar War
Ignites " Gregory A. Pierson grew up in Alton, Illinois on the
banks of the Mississippi River. He currently lives in Castillejos,
Zambales, Western Luzon Island in the Philippines. Publisher's
website: http: //sbpra.com/GregoryAPierson
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