Research Catalog

Title

Kafka comes to America : fighting for justice in the war on terror / Steven T. Wax.

Author

Wax, Steven T.

Publication

New York : Other Press, c2008.

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Description

x, 380 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Argues that civil liberties have eroded since the September 11 terrorist attacks and presents case studies of two men who were casualties of post-9/11 counterterrorism measures.

Subject

• Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
• Terrorists > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Detention of persons > United States
• Terrorism > Law and legislation > United States
• Civil rights > Government policy > United States
• Due process of law > United States
• Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-359) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Footprints in the carpet -- "Portland lawyer arrested!" -- A cry for help from Guantanamo -- Innocence is irrelevant -- Seized and disappeared -- From September 11 to Guantanamo Bay -- The matching of latent print # 17 -- A lonely battle -- Feeding refugees and teaching orphans -- The unconscionable detention of Adel Hamad -- The seeds of mercy -- A life exposed -- The ice man -- Something to hide -- The cavalry is coming -- The DTA and the second rebuke-- Homeland security -- Proffer and immunity -- Catch 22 -- The road to Kabul -- Defenders in the war zones -- Spanish truths/American lies -- Mayfield : the aftermath -- the MCA and the third procedural stall -- The dark winter -- Tea with the ministers in Sudan -- The final round for Adel -- The fight for freedom is never won.

ISBN

9781590512951

LCCN

^^2007045437

OCLC

• 180907891
• SCSB-10258231

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library