The least worst place: Guantanamo's first 100 days
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1. Verfasser: Greenberg, Karen J. 1955- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index
World Gone Wrong -- The First Team -- The Void -- Filling the Void -- The Bad Guys First -- The Petting Zoo -- The Caribbean Hilton -- The General and the Chaplain -- Missing Pieces -- A Political Animal -- Towels into Turbans -- Bowing Out -- Postscript : the Banality of Goodness
In January 2002, the first detainees of the War on Terror disembarked in Guantánamo Bay, dazed, bewildered, and--more often than not--alarmingly thin. With little advance notice, the military's preparations for this group of predominantly unimportant ne'er-do-wells were hastily thrown together, but as Karen Greenberg shows, a number of capable and honorable Marine officers tried to create a humane and just detention center. Greenberg, a leading expert on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story of the first one hundred days of Guantánamo through a group of career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies and bypass the Geneva Conventions. The latter ultimately won out, replacing transparency with secrecy, military protocol with violations of basic operation procedures, and humane and legal detainee treatment with harsh interrogation methods and torture--patterns of power that would come to dominate the Bush administration's overall strategy.--From publisher description
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 260 pages)
ISBN:0195371887
0199707413
9780195371888
9780199707416

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