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Widely acclaimed as a publishing milestone, The Torture Papers
(Cambridge, 2005) constitutes the definitive book of public record
detailing the Bush Administration's policies on torture and
political prisoners. In the process of assembling the documents,
memoranda, and reports that comprise the material in The Torture
Papers, a vital question arose: What was the rationale behind the
Bush Administration's decision to condone the use of coercive
techniques in the interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist
connections? The use of these techniques at Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo has sparked an intense debate in America. The Torture
Debate in America captures the arguments on torture that have been
put forth by legislators, human rights activists, and others. It
raises the key moral, legal, and historical questions that have led
to current considerations on the use of torture. Divided into three
sections, the contributions cover all sides of the debate, from
absolute prohibition of torture to its use as a viable option in
the War on Terror.
The Enemy Combatants Papers presents the five major enemy combatant
cases of the post-9/11 era. Presented in narrative form, these
original documents tell the story that clarifies the questions at
the heart of the American detention of alleged combatants in the
war on terror. These documents discuss the right to counsel, the
right to a trial, the right for the accused to see the evidence
against him, and the intersection between domestic and
international law. The book highlights the tension between the
needs of national security and the liberties allotted to alleged
enemies of the state by highlighting the basic question of what the
U.S. Constitution guarantees and to whom. In these documents, the
reader can follow the evolving arguments about presidential powers
in time of war, habeas corpus, the Geneva Conventions, balance of
powers, and matters of detention and prisoner treatment.
Complemented with a comprehensive timeline and appendices that
include the relevant cases from the Civil War, World War II, and
the Korean War and the premises for setting up military commissions
and Combatant Status Review Tribunals, this book is meant for those
who seek to understand the issues - legal, political, and military
- that have dominated the search for balance between justice and
security in the war on terror.
How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump
and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the
September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a
wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and
undetected by the public, however, another set of tools was brought
to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of
today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these
"subtle tools" imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from
the separation of powers and transparency in government to
adherence to the Constitution. Taking readers from Ground Zero to
the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle
tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of
security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and
the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and
legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them
increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against
terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses
how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate
families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and
attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Revealing the
deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a
troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where
disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new
norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened
democracy itself.
This volume of presentations by a group of authorities on
international terrorism and Al Qaeda constitute a valuable synopsis
of current knowledge on this terrorist group and the policies in
place to counter threats of future attacks. The articles contribute
to understanding how Al Qaeda has evolved from a movement to an
ideology, what influence it has on Middle East stability and what
continued threat it is to the United States, Europe, and other
areas of the world. The contributors, from academia, research
centers, government agencies and the media, represent a cross
section of recognized experts on Al Qaeda and international
terrorism. Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the
Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of
Law. She is a visiting Professor of European Studies at New York
University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is
co-editor of The Torture Papers (Cambridge, 2005).
Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention
Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of
all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane,
and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by
many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet
until now no one has written about the most revealing part of the
story - the prison's first 100 days. It was during this time that a
group of career military men and women tried to uphold the
traditional military codes of honour and justice that informed
their training in the face of a far more ruthless, less rule-bound,
civilian leadership in the Pentagon. They were defeated. This book
tells their story for the first time. It is a tale of how
individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo, along with their
direct superiors, struggled with their assignment from Washington,
only to be unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn
the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins
of the law and beyond.
How policies forged after September 11 were weaponized under Trump
and turned on American democracy itself In the wake of the
September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a
wave of overt policies to fight the nation's enemies. Unseen and
undetected by the public, however, another set of tools was brought
to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of
today's leading experts on the US security state shows how these
"subtle tools" imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from
the separation of powers and transparency in government to
adherence to the Constitution. Taking readers from Ground Zero to
the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle
tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of
security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and
the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and
legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them
increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against
terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses
how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate
families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and
attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Revealing the
deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a
troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where
disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new
norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened
democracy itself.
Reimagining the National Security State provides the first
comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took
on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name
of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory,
history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the
ways in which liberal democracy suffered at the hands of
policymakers in the name of national security. The contributors,
who are leading experts and practitioners in fields ranging from
political theory to evolutionary biology, discuss the vast
expansion of executive powers, the excessive reliance secrecy, and
the exploration of questionable legal territory in matters of
detention, criminal justice, targeted killings, and warfare. This
book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical
precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil
liberties, human rights and, the rule of law in the name of the war
on terror.
Reimagining the National Security State provides the first
comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took
on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name
of the war on terror. Looking through the lenses of theory,
history, law, and policy, the essays in this volume illuminate the
ways in which liberal democracy suffered at the hands of
policymakers in the name of national security. The contributors,
who are leading experts and practitioners in fields ranging from
political theory to evolutionary biology, discuss the vast
expansion of executive powers, the excessive reliance secrecy, and
the exploration of questionable legal territory in matters of
detention, criminal justice, targeted killings, and warfare. This
book gives the reader an eye-opening window onto the historical
precedents and lasting impact the security state has had on civil
liberties, human rights and, the rule of law in the name of the war
on terror.
This book presents the five major enemy combatant cases of the
post-9/11 era. Presented in narrative form, these original
documents tell the story that clarifies the questions at the heart
of the American detention of alleged combatants in the war on
terror. These documents discuss the right to counsel, the right to
a trial, the right for the accused to see the evidence against him,
and the intersection between domestic and international law. The
book highlights the tension between the needs of national security
and the liberties allotted to alleged enemies of the state by
highlighting the basic question of what the US Constitution
guarantees and to whom. The reader can follow the evolving
arguments about presidential powers in time of war, habeas corpus,
the Geneva Conventions, balance of powers, and matters of detention
and prisoner treatment. This book is meant for those who seek to
understand the issues that have dominated the search for balance
between justice and security in the war on terror.
As a result of the work assembling the documents, memoranda, and
reports that constitute the material in The Torture Papers the
question of the rationale behind the Bush administration's decision
to condone the use of coercive interrogation techniques in the
interrogation of detainees suspected of terrorist connections was
raised. The condoned use of torture in any society is questionable
but its use by the United States, a liberal democracy that
champions human rights and is a party to international conventions
forbidding torture, has sparked an intense debate within America.
The Torture Debate in America captures these arguments with essays
from individuals in different discipines. This volume is divided
into two sections with essays covering all sides of the argument
from those who embrace absolute prohibition of torture to those who
see it as a viable option in the war on terror and with documents
complementing the essays.
This volume of presentations by a group of authorities on
international terrorism and Al Qaeda constitute a valuable synopsis
of current knowledge on this terrorist group and the policies in
place to counter threats of future attacks. The articles contribute
to understanding how Al Qaeda has evolved from a movement to an
ideology, what influence it has on Middle East stability and what
continued threat it is to the United States, Europe, and other
areas of the world. The contributors, from academia, research
centers, government agencies and the media, represent a cross
section of recognized experts on Al Qaeda and international
terrorism. Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the
Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of
Law. She is a visiting Professor of European Studies at New York
University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is
co-editor of The Torture Papers (Cambridge, 2005).
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