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Garry
Yale University Press
March 2013
On Sale: February 19, 2013
448 pages
ISBN: 0300189206
EAN: 9780300189209
Kindle: B00B4NLWTU
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Non-Fiction
Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United
States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in
Afghanistan and around the world. By the following January
the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. military’s
prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were subject
to President George W. Bush’s executive order authorizing
their trial by military commissions. Jess Bravin, the Wall
Street Journal’s Supreme Court correspondent, was there
within days of the prison’s opening, and has continued ever
since to cover the U.S. effort to create a parallel justice
system for enemy aliens. A maze of legal, political, and
moral issues has stood in the way of justice—issues often
raised by military prosecutors who found themselves torn
between duty to the chain of command and their commitment to
fundamental American values. While much has been written about Guantanamo and brutal
detention practices following 9/11, Bravin is the first to
go inside the Pentagon’s prosecution team to expose the
real-world legal consequences of those policies. Bravin
describes cases undermined by inadmissible evidence obtained
through torture, clashes between military lawyers and
administration appointees, and political interference in
criminal prosecutions that would be shocking within the
traditional civilian and military justice systems. With the
Obama administration planning to try the alleged 9/11
conspirators at Guantanamo—and vindicate the legal
experiment the Bush administration could barely get off the
ground—The Terror Courts could not be more tim
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