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Democracy Detained: Secret Unconstitutional Practices in the U.S. War on Terror.
DEMOCRACY DETAINED: SECRET UNCONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES IN THE U.S. WAR ON TERROR
By Barbara Olshansky
Seven Stories Press, 337 pages
WITH THE RECENT, and still limited, debate in the media about the Bush administration's torture and wiretapping practices, legal scholar Barbara Olshansky's book is a timely and comprehensive resource for understanding the constitutional and human rights ramifications of the war on terror.
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Olshansky covers the gamut of our national security era from post-9/11 secret detentions and profiling, to the significance of Guantanamo and the "enemy combatant" designation, Abu Ghraib torture and rendition policies, and the expansion of domestic surveillance. What's especially powerful is her ability to connect these events within the framework of ...
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