Benjamin Wittes offers the first nonpartisan critique of a crucial front in Americas war on terrorthe legal battles fought by and among the Bu...
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Jun 30, 2010
Daniel
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The law of terrorism is a difficult topic to broach, no matter what your political affiliation, and given the history of the last eight years since 9/11, it has become even more difficult. However, even as a non-lawyer, Wittes provides some interesting and compelling ideas. His evaluation of what has happened provides engaging discussion of not only how the Congress and President Bush have tried to grapple with the new and difficult issues presented by terror in a globalized world. Terrorists
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Apr 12, 2009
Jennifer
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Definitely makes the point that there's more than enough blame to go around (not just the president, but notably Congress and the Supreme Court), and what you see on the news is never the whole story.
Jul 26, 2009
I'm sure this book will annoy me but it was remaindered at my local bookstore and very cheap and I'd seen Wittes on a Cspan panel with Charlie Savage, so.
Dec 25, 2009
Conor
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Balanced, thoughtful, and impeccably researched account. I highly recommend this book.
Feb 06, 2011
Somehow, it seems to me tacky to rate my own books. So I'm not going to...
Jun 23, 2011
Tim
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Analysis of Bush Administration failings in legal prosecution of the war on terror, suggests policy principles for the way forward. an excellent book.
Dec 11, 2008
Alexandra
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I would probably not have read this book if I didn't have to for work. I found this book to be very dense and difficult to read at times, and (perhaps for the first time ever) I found myself wishing for more footnotes so that I could get a deeper insight into some of his assertions. That said, I did not agree with everything Wittes says, but he writes well and I always enjoy reading views that differ from my own that are logically substantiated.
Dec 07, 2011
Starts out well looking at the difficulty of finding a good balance between law, executive privilege, and constitutional freedoms. No easy answers- just lots of questions.
Feb 21, 2010
Alex
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I bought this book because I was intrigued by its claim to be a serious, scholarly, thoughtful -- and most of all, non-partisan -- look at American national security law in a post-9/11 world. I was skeptical, but Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings Institution fellow and writer for The New Republic and The Atlantic, manages to do the impossible -- objectively analyze the most controversial national security issues of our time: the role of our three branches of government in fighting terrorism, Guantana
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