Product Description: Why did it happen? Why did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? Instead of an indictment, this book presents an explanation. Crises produce rare opportunities for overcoming the domestic and foreign policy logjams facing political leaders...read more

Product Description: When states are threatened by war and terrorism, can we really expect them to abide by human rights and humanitarian law? David Forsythe's bold analysis of US policies towards terror suspects after 9/11 addresses this issue directly...read more

Product Description: The United States has historically been regarded as a moral leader opening the pathway for human rights. The country which for so long has struggled for the establishment of the rule of law - as well as to be a model for other nations in observing it - has, since September11, 2001, committed abhorrent practices of torture, which the US has fought against when committed by others...read more

Product Description: That American forces should torture prisoners in their “war” on terror is disturbing, but more shocking still is that the highest officials of the Bush-Cheney administration planned, authorized, encouraged, and concealed these war crimes...read more

Product Description: In an outspoken memoir -- all the more powerful in light of recent discoveries -- Janis Karpinski reveals the true story of the tragic and shameful events of 2004 from her first-hand experience as commanding general in Iraq. Karpinski was the only female general officer commanding troops in a combat zone in Iraq...read more

Product Description: Human Rights First’s new report,"Command’s Responsibility: Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan," provides the first comprehensive accounting of the U.S. government’s handling of the nearly 100 cases of detainees who have died in U...read more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of The Price of Power provides an eye-opening look at the political crises that resulted from the September 11th attacks, in an unflinching look behind the public story of the Bush Administration's 'war on terror,' America's involvement in Iraq, and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

Essays discuss contrasting views on the treatment of suspects captured and imprisoned by the United States because of alleged links to terrorist activities.