The Least Worst Place: How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison

ISBN-13: 9780199557677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 286 str.

Karen J Greenberg

Opis

This is the tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond.

Recenzje

Karen Greenberg's deeply researched account of the early days of Guantanamo shows the legal, political and moral questions that plagued the prison camp from the outset: its dubious legal authority, the uncertain status of the prisoners, and the doubts of key officials who tried to uphold American and international law. The Least Worst Place, which is so well written that it reads in places like a prose poem, is going to be essential reading for anyone who is trying to understand the legal morass surrounding Guantanamo and detainee policy in the 'war on terror.'

O autorze

Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law and a frequent commentator on issues related to the war on terror, ranging from detention and torture to the terrorist threat. She is the editor of numerous books, including The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib and the Terrorist Trial Report Card which has tracked all US terrorism cases to go through the US courts since 9/11. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Finanical Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, and many other publications.