Research Catalog

Title

Our nation unhinged : the human consequences of the War on Terror / Peter Jan Honigsberg ; foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky.

Author

Honigsberg, Peter Jan.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Description

xix, 311 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Examines what the author sees as the Bush administration's manipulation of American and international law and its human consequences, especially as evidenced by the treatment received by people charged as enemy combatants in the War on Terror.

Subject

• Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
• Detention of persons > United States
• Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
• Human rights > Government policy > United States
• Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base > Cases
• Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > Guantánamo Bay Naval Base
• Prisoners of war > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-293) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introducing the term enemy combatant -- Justifying harsh interrogations and torture -- Asserting absolute power as Commander in Chief -- Yaser Hamdi, American citizen -- Jose Padilla, American citizen -- Ali Saleh Kalah Al Marri, American resident -- Preventive detention -- 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 -- Inhumane treatment of detainees at Guantanamo -- Interrogation log of a Guantanamo detainee -- FBI report : July 29, 2004 -- Denial of treatment -- Suicides at the base -- The emergency response force -- Hunger strikers and force-feeding --The Administration under siege, 2004-2006 -- Combatant Status Review Tribunals -- Administrative review boards -- Government interference with attorneys -- The Administration's legal position falters -- 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 -- Another blow to the Administration : Parhat v. Gates -- The evolution of extraordinary rendition -- Case study : Khalid El-Masri -- Case study : Maher Arar -- Case study : Abu Omar -- Violating human rights laws -- John Walker Lindh -- Richard Colvin Reid -- Zacarias Moussaoui -- The Lackawanna Six.

ISBN

• 9780520254725 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520254724 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008052272

OCLC

261173659

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library