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''Our current stalemate over detention serves nobodynot the military or any other component of the U.S. government that has to operate overseas...It is a system that no rational combination of values or strategic considerations would have produced; it could have emerged only as a consequence of a clash of interests that produced a clear victory for nobody.'' from the Introduction Benjamin Wittes issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American government regarding its detention policy and practices, and greater citizen awareness of the same. In __Detention and Denial__, he illustrates how U.S. detention policy is a tangle of obfuscation rather than a serious set of moral and legal decisions. Far from sharpening focus and defining clear parameters for action, it sends mixed signals, muddies the legal and military waters, and produces perverse incentives. Its random operation makes a mockery of the human rights concerns that prompted the limited amount of legal scrutiny that detention has received to date. The government may actually be painting itself into a corner, leaving itself unable to explain or justify actions it may need to take

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Author

Benjamin Wittes

Publisher

Brookings Institution Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780815704911

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Law, Government & Politics