Call number
973.93 L
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Publication
Pantheon (2008), Edition: First Edition, 384 pages
Description
In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a war--a war that would require new tools and a new mind-set. As legal sanction was given to covert surveillance and interrogation tactics, internal struggles brewed over programs and policies that threatened to tear at the constitutional fabric of the country.Bush's Law is the alarming account of the White House's efforts to prevent the publication of Eric Lichtblau's exposé on warrantless wiretapping--and an authoritative examination of how the Bush administration employed its "war on terror" to mask the most radical remaking of American justice in generations.
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LibraryThing member nmele
Lichtblau has written a surprisingly up to date review of a host of issues from Ashcroft through FISA and Gonzales to rendition, torture, wiretapping and of course, the firing of Federal prosecutors. I was most interested in Lichtblau's sympathetic portraits of people like John Yoo and Alberto
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Pages
384
ISBN
037542492X / 9780375424922