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Detention and denial : the case for candor after Guantánamo / Benjamin Wittes.
- Title
- Detention and denial : the case for candor after Guantánamo / Benjamin Wittes.
- Author
- Wittes, Benjamin.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2011.
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- Description
- x, 160 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Discusses the legal, political, and moral ramifications of the current U.S. approach to handling detention of terrorist suspects and reviews in particular the historical and current uses of preventive detention under American law in arguing for a formal, statutory system of rules to govern detention in the context of counterterrorism operations"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p.147-151) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Current U.S. policy -- The mythology and reality of preventive detention in the United States -- The emerging law of detention -- The problems that denial cannot solve -- The case for candor -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780815704911 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0815704917 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010039948
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library