Law's Detour : Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration / Peter Margulies.
2010
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Title
Law's Detour : Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration / Peter Margulies.
Author
Margulies, Peter, author.
ISBN
9780814759608
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814795590.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.931
Summary
From the Justice Department's memos defending coerced interrogation to Alberto Gonzales' firing of U.S. Attorneys who did not fit the Bush Administration's political needs, Law's Detour paints an alarming picture of the many detours that George W. Bush and his allies created to thwart transparency and undermine the rule of law after September 11, 2001. Pursuing those detours, Bush officials set up a law-free zone at Guantánamo, ordered massive immigration raids that separated families, and screened candidates for civil service jobs to ensure the hiring of "real Americans."While government needs flexibility to address genuine risks to national security-which certainly exist in the post-9/11 world-the Bush Administration's use of detours distracted the government from urgent priorities, tarnished America's reputation, and threatened voting and civil rights. In this comprehensive analysis of Bush officials' efforts to stretch and strain the justice system, Peter Margulies canvasses the costs of the Administration's many detours, from resisting accountability in the war on terrorism to thwarting economic and environmental regulation. Concise and full of compelling anecdotes, Law's Detour maps these aberrations, surveys the damage done, and reaffirms the virtues of transparency and dialog that the Bush administration dismissed.
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Critical America ; ; 24
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Perfect Storm of Politics, Ideology, and Crisis
2 Targeting Individuals and Groups
3 The Architecture of Impunity
4 Centralizing Policy and Patronage
5 Conspiracy's Discontents
6 Justice and Elections
7 Regulation of Business and the Flight from Accountability at Home and Abroad
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Perfect Storm of Politics, Ideology, and Crisis
2 Targeting Individuals and Groups
3 The Architecture of Impunity
4 Centralizing Policy and Patronage
5 Conspiracy's Discontents
6 Justice and Elections
7 Regulation of Business and the Flight from Accountability at Home and Abroad
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author