portada Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (en Inglés)

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Aziz Z. Huq

Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr

Editorial

New Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x16.1x2 cm

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN

1595583475

ISBN13

9781595583475

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xxi: c. 2000-c. 2100
Gobierno central
Control y libertades políticas
Historia de américa

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror (en Inglés)

Aziz Z. Huq (Autor) · Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr (Autor) · New Press · Tapa Blanda

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Thirty years after the Church Committee unearthed COINTELPRO and other instances of illicit executive behavior on the domestic and international fronts, the Bush administration has elevated the flaws identified by the committee into first principles of government. Through a constellation of nonpublic laws and opaque, unaccountable institutions, the current administration has created a "secret presidency" run by classified presidential decisions and orders about national security. A hyperactive Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice is intent on eliminating checks on presidential power and testing that power's limits. Decisions are routinely executed at senior levels within the civilian administration without input from Congress or the federal courts, let alone our international allies. Secret NSA spying at home is the most recent of these. Harsh treatment of detainees, "extraordinary renditions," secret foreign prisons, and the newly minted enemy combatant designation have also undermined our values. The resulting policies have harmed counterterrorism efforts and produced few tangible results. With a partisan Congress predictably reluctant to censure a politically aligned president, it is all the more important for citizens themselves to demand disclosure, oversight, and restraint of sweeping claims of executive power. This book is the first step.