Detention and denial the case for candor after Guantanamo

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...

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Main Author: Wittes, Benjamin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press 2011
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505 |a 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. 
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