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Description for Bad Advice
Hardcover. From wiretapping American citizens to waterboarding foreign prisoners, the Bush administration has triggered an uproar over its tactics in the War on Terror - and over its justifications for using them. This book provides a critique of those justifications, which he finds at odds with both American law and moral authority. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; JPWL; LND; LNFV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 33. Weight in Grams: 798.
From wiretapping American citizens to waterboarding foreign prisoners, the Bush administration has triggered an uproar over its tactics in the War on Terror - and over its justifications for using them. Through a close study of the legal advice provided to President Bush, former Justice Department attorney Harold Bruff provides an incisive and scathing critique of those justifications, which he finds at odds with both American law and moral authority. Bruff rigorously examines legal opinions regarding NSA surveillance, the indefinite detention of terror suspects, the denial of Geneva Convention protection, trial by military commissions, and suspect interrogation techniques. He shows ... Read more
From wiretapping American citizens to waterboarding foreign prisoners, the Bush administration has triggered an uproar over its tactics in the War on Terror - and over its justifications for using them. Through a close study of the legal advice provided to President Bush, former Justice Department attorney Harold Bruff provides an incisive and scathing critique of those justifications, which he finds at odds with both American law and moral authority. Bruff rigorously examines legal opinions regarding NSA surveillance, the indefinite detention of terror suspects, the denial of Geneva Convention protection, trial by military commissions, and suspect interrogation techniques. He shows ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700616435
SKU
V9780700616435
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About Harold H. Bruff
Harold H. Bruff is Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A former senior attorney-adviser to the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, he is also the author of Balance of Forces: Separation of Powers Law in the Administrative State.
Reviews for Bad Advice
A masterful and timely study. Bruff explains how and why top lawyers in the Bush administration decided to manipulate the law for political ends. He also provides thoughtful and seasoned advice on how to restore our constitutional government. Louis Fisher, author of The Constitution and 9/11 ""An important book of astonishing breadth. With lucid and compelling prose, Bruff brilliantly exposes ... Read more