Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detention of unlawful combatants
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Background : "Operation Enduring Freedom" -- Violations by U.S. forces -- International legal context -- Conclusions -- Recommendations -- Appendix : U.S. criticisms of mistreatment and torture practices -- Acknowledgments.

Author: Christopher H. Pyle
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597976210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451

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Follows the paper trail of torture memos that led to abuses at Guantanámo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq.

Author: Jane Mayer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307456501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world—decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. With a new afterward. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

Author: Reed Brody
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564327895
Category : Abuse of administrative power
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Recommendations -- Background: official sanction for crimes against detainees -- Torture of detainees in US counterterrorism operations -- Individual criminal responsibility -- Appendix: foreign state proceedings regarding US detainee mistreatment -- Acknowledgments and methodology.

Author: Karen J. Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521853248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1306

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Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.

Author: Department of Department of the Army
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978322677
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The 1992 edition of the FM 34-52 Intelligence Interrogation Field Manual.

Author: Jennifer K. Elsea
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 143792722X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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Contents: (1) Current Status (as of '07); Critics¿ Views; Applicable Law; (2) The Law of War: Characterizing the Conflict; Authority to Detain during an Internat. Armed Conflict; POWs; Civilian Detainees; Unlawful Belligerents; Interp. of GPW Article 4; GPW Art. 4A(1): Does Al Qaeda Form ¿Part of¿ the Armed Forces of a Party to the Conflict?; GPW Art. 4A(2): Does Al Qaeda ¿Belong to¿ a Party to the Conflict?; The Four Criteria; Determining Status under GPW Art. 5; Detention in Non-Internat. Armed Conflicts; (3) Treat. of Detainees at Guantánamo: Interrogation; Trial and Punishment; POWs; Civilians; Unlawful Belligerents; Security Measures; Repatriation; Right to Redress; (4) Congress¿s Role: Detainee Treatment Act of '05; Military Commissions Act of '06.

Author: Jennifer K. Elsea
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437918409
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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In June 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that U.S. courts have jurisdiction to hear challenges on behalf of persons detained at the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in connection with the war against terrorism. The Court overturned a ruling that no U.S. court has jurisdiction to hear petitions for habeas corpus on behalf of the detainees because they are aliens detained abroad. This report provides an overview of the law of war and the historical treatment of wartime detainees, in particular the U.S. practice; describes how the detainees¿ status might affect their rights and treatment; and summarizes activity of the 108th and 109th Congresses related to detention in connection with the war against terrorism.

Author: Moazzam Begg
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595587330
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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When Enemy Combatant was first published in the United States in hardcover in 2006 it garnered sensational reviews, and its author was featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, on National Public Radio, and on ABC News. A second generation British Muslim, Begg had been held by the U.S. military for more than three years before being released without charge in January of 2005. His memoir is the first published account by a Guantánamo detainee of life inside the infamous prison. Writing in the Washington Post Book World, Jane Mayer described Enemy Combatant as “fascinating . . . Begg provides some ideological counterweight to the one-sided spin coming from the U.S. government. He writes passionately and personally, stripping readers of the comforting lie that somehow the detainees aren't really like us, with emotional attachments, intellectual interests and fully developed humanity.” Recommended by the Financial Times and Tikkun magazine and a ColorLines Editors' Pick of Post-9/11 Books, Enemy Combatant is “a forcefully told, up-to-the-minute political story . . . necessary reading for people on all sides of the issue” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).