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The Remaking of American Justice
Pantheon
April 2008
On Sale: April 1, 2008
384 pages ISBN: 037542492X EAN: 9780375424922 Hardcover
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In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush and his top
advisors declared that the struggle against terrorism would
be nothing less than a war–a new kind of war that would
require new tactics, new tools, and a new mind-set. Bush’s
Law is the unprecedented account of how the Bush
administration employed its “war on terror” to mask the
most radical remaking of American justice in generations. On orders from the highest levels of the administration,
counterterrorism officials at the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA
were asked to play roles they had never played before. But
with that unprecedented power, administration officials
butted up against–or disregarded altogether–the legal
restrictions meant to safeguard Americans’ rights, as they
gave legal sanction to covert programs and secret
interrogation tactics, a swept up thousands of suspects in
the drift net. Eric Lichtblau, who has covered the Justice Department and
national security issues for the duration of the Bush
administration, details not only the development of the
NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program–initiated by the vice
president’s office in the weeks after 9/11–but also the
intense pressure that the White House brought to bear on
The New York Times to thwart his story on the program. Bush’s Law is an unparalleled and authoritative
investigative report on the hidden internal struggles over
secret programs and policies that tore at the
constitutional fabric of the country and, ultimately,
brought down an attorney general.
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