Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle Over Presidential Power in the War on Terror

by Howard Ball

Book Overview

The infamous detainees of Guantnamo, garbed in their bright orange prison jumpsuits, have come to symbolize a host of controversial policies and powers claimed by President George W. Bush in the so-called war on terror. Designated as "enemy combatants," a vaguely defined and previously unrecognized category in the international laws of war, they have been at the center of a legal firestorm challenging the Bush administration's conduct of the war...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615296
• ISBN13: 9780700615292
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"