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When Governments Break the Law : The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Obama has repeatedly emphasized his Administration's commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has this resolve been so quickly and severely tested than with the issue of the possible prosecution of Bush Administration officials. While some worry that without legal consequences there will be no effective deterrence for the repetition of future transgressions of justice committed at the highest levels of government, others echo Obama's seemingly reluctant stance on launching an investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing by former President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, and members of the Office of Legal Counsel. Indeed, even some of the Bush Administration's harshest critics suggest that we should avoid such confrontations, that the price of political division is too high. Measured or partisan, scholarly or journalistic, clearly the debate about accountability for the alleged crimes of the Bush Administration will continue for some time. Using this debate as its jumping o
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- Author
- Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain
- Publisher
- U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814741399
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, True Crime, Law
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