At home and abroad, the administration has cut corners on fundamental commitments of the rule of law in the name of preventing future attacks-from "waterboarding" detainees, to disappearing suspects into secret CIA prisons, to attacking Iraq against the wishes of the UN Security Council and most of the world when it posed no imminent threat attacking us. In this brilliantly conceived critique, two of the country's preeminent constitutional scholars argue that the great irony is that these sacrifices in the rule of law have in fact made us more susceptible to future terrorist attacks. New Press, 2007, Retail $26.95 (cloth) |
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