Beyond the Law: The Bush Administration’s Unlawful Responses in the “War”on Terror by Jordan J. Paust, Cambridge Univ. Press, 311 pp., 2007

The book discusses violations of international law authorized and assisted by secret memos, authorizations and orders of the Bush Administration. The book focuses on why several Executive claims were mistaken, what illegal authorizations resulted, what illegal interrogation tactics were approved, and what illegal transfers and secret detentions occurred...[more]