Bush, the Detainees, and the Constitution: The Battle Over Presidential Power in the War on Terror

by Howard Ball

The infamous detainees of Guantnamo, garbed in their bright orange prison jumpsuits, have come to symbolize a host of controversial policies and powers claimed by President George W. Bush in the so-called war on terror. Designated as "enemy combatants," a vaguely defined and previously unrecognized category in the international laws of war, they have been at the center of a legal firestorm challenging the Bush administration's conduct of the war...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700615296
• ISBN13: 9780700615292
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"