Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
by Joseph Margulies
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Author: Joseph MarguliesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-07-03
ISBN: 0743286863
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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If only we had had human rights lawyers preserving the rights of German, Italian, and Japanese prisoners of war. That would have advanced the war effort during WWII. FDR and Truman must be characterized as war criminals too given the narrow criteria of the author. It is merely mincing words to describe the detainees as somehow different than prisoners of war. The UN has failed to create a category for insurgents and militants in regards to combat and capture. They are not common criminals deserving a trial. It would be rational for the UN to create a category for such combatants, so they could be placed in prisoner of war camps until the duration of the conflict, but without a recoginized status of traditional soldiers. Without such criteria, my hat is off to the President for making a difficult decision knowing the human rights activists would attack him. I might add that in past conflicts, combatants not in uniform were shot on the spot.
Having served for 28 years as an Army officer and in multiple war zones, I can honestly say the detainees are treated much better than the military service men and women. Both in training and in conflicts, we endure sleep deprivation, often live in the elements for weeks at a time, sleep on the ground, miss meals, and are away from our families. I guess we've been tortured all these years. Where are our human rights lawyers? Don't tell me we deserve it because we volunteered. The detainees volunteered to join al Qaeda, Taliban, and other extremist organizations. I'm glad they are in Gitmo and other prisons. I hope they rot there for all the innocent people they've killed.
Summary of Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power
The detention system established by the Bush Administration at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba is like no other in our nation's history. Joseph Margulies traces the development of this detention policy from its ill-conceived creation in 2002 as "the ideal interrogation chamber" to its present form, where most prisoners are held without charges in a super-maximum security prison, even though the U.S. government has acknowledged that many have been cleared for release and most of the others are not even alleged to have committed a hostile act against the United States or its allies.Margulies, who was the lead attorney in the Supreme Court case Rasul v. Bush, writes that Guantánamo and other secret CIA and Defense Department detention centers around the world have become "prisons beyond the law," where the Administration claims the right to hold people indefinitely, incommunicado, and in solitary confinement without charges, access to counsel, and without benefit of the Geneva Conventions. Weaving together firsthand accounts of military personnel who witnessed the interrogations at Guantánamo along with the words of the prisoners themselves, Margulies exposes the chilling reality of a "war on terror" that masks an assault on basic human rights -- rights to which the United States has always subscribed.
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