Detention and denial : the case for candor after Guantánamo /

"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 det...

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Main Author: Wittes, Benjamin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2011]
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