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Title:
The terror presidency : law and judgment inside the Bush administration / Jack Goldsmith.
Author:
Goldsmith, Jack L., author.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co Inc, 2009.
Call Number:
KF5060 .G65 2009
Abstract:
A key advisor to President Bush recounts his political clashes with powerful administration figures when he questioned the choices of his predecessors about the way the war on terror was being conducted, in an account in which he cites historical parallels.
ISBN:
9780393335330
Physical Description:
282 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
"With a new afterword"--Cover.
Contents:
The new job -- The Commander in Chief ensnared by law -- Fear and OLC -- When lawyers make terrorism policy -- Torture and the dilemmas of Presidential lawyering -- The terror presidency.
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