Under the color of law : the Bush administration's subversion of U.S. constitutional and international law in the War on Terror / Martin Henn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Under the color of law -- Question one : The Yoo-Flanigan memo -- Question two : The November 13 executive order -- Question three : The Yoo-Haynes II memo -- Question four : The February 7 executive order -- Question five : The Bybee-Gonzales memo -- Appendix A : Military order of November 13, 2001, President George W. Bush -- Appendix B : Executive order of February 7, 2002, President George W. Bush -- Appendix C : Order establishing combatant status review tribunal, July 7, 2004, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz -- Appendix D : International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Preamble with Articles 1-16 and 26) -- Appendix E : United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Preamble with Articles 1-16 and 31) -- Appendix F : Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War (select articles) -- Appendix G : Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (select articles) -- Appendix H : The Federal Anti-Torture statue (Title 18, Part I, Chapter 113C, U.S.C. [sub-section] 2340-2340A) -- Appendix I : The Federal War Crimes Act of 1996 (Title 18, Part I, Chapter 118, U.S.C. [section] 2441) -- Appendix J : War Powers Resolution of 1973 Pub. L. No. 93-148, 87 Stat. 555, 93rd Congress, H.J. Res. 542 (Title 50, U.S.C. [sub-section] 1541-1548).

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Under the Color of Law constitutes a full and critical scholarly commentary to the text of five key Bush administration legal memoranda formative of U.S. counterterrorism policy from 2001 to 2009. This volume is dedicated to the idea that these documents are worthy of being read and critically examined in themselves as primary text, precisely because the act of critical assessment may yield meaningful policy reform in the ongoing debate facing the nation over balancing security interests with the pre.

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