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Secret Trials And Executions

Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781583225370

Contributor(s): Barbara Olshansky

Subjects: Politics & Government

Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press

Publication Date: 01-09-2002

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£5.99

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About the book

Since September 11 there has been a sweeping revision of US law aimed at countering terrorism, but involving a profound curtailment of Americans' constitutional rights and liberties. The most controversial of the new measures is the unprecedented order authorising the creation of special military tribunals to try non-citizens suspected of terrorism. Olshansky looks at the history of military tribunals world-wide as well as alternatives, explains its unconstitutional elements, and the threat such a move bears on the US's international credibility and authority.

Secret Trials And Executions

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