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War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror

John Yoo - Political Science - 2007 - 304 pages
The key legal architect of the Bush administration’s response to 9/11 delivers a fascinating insider account of the war on terror. While America reeled from the cataclysmic ...
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The Politics of Prisoner Abuse: The United States and Enemy Prisoners after 9/11

David P. Forsythe - Political Science - 2011 - 333 pages
When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David P. Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies ...
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State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush

A. Kolin - Political Science - 2011 - 251 pages
State Power and Democracy is the first book to show that the Bush police state didn't commence when Bush was inaugurated. It proves, instead, that the seeds of an American ...
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Habeas Corpus after 9/11: Confronting America’s New Global Detention System

Jonathan Hafetz - Political Science - 2011 - 331 pages
The U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay has long been synonymous with torture, secrecy, and the abuse of executive power. It has come to epitomize lawlessness and has ...
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Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US ...

Mark Fallon - History - 2017 - 240 pages
The book the government doesn’t want you to read. President Trump wants to bring back torture. This is why he’s wrong. In his more than thirty years as an NCIS special agent ...
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The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

Lawrence Wright - Political Science - 2007 - 578 pages
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in ...
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The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the ...

John M. Diamond - Political Science - 2008 - 552 pages
The CIA and the Culture of Failure follows the CIA through a series of crises from the Soviet collapse to the war in Iraq and explains the political pressures that helped lead ...
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