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Bush's Law The Remaking of American Justice

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ISBN-10: 0307280543

ISBN-13: 9780307280541

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Lichtblau

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In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush and his top advisors declared that the struggle against terrorism would be nothing less than a wara new kind of war that would require new tactics, new tools, and a new mind-set.Bush's Lawis the unprecedented account of how the Bush administration employed its "war on terror" to mask the most radical remaking of American justice in generations. On orders from the highest levels of the administration, counterterrorism officials at the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA were asked to play roles they had never played before. But with that unprecedented power, administration officials butted up againstor disregarded altogetherthe legal restrictions meant to…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.15" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Eric Lichtblau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times and has written about legal, political, and national security issues in the capital since 1999. He was the co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his stories in the New York Times disclosing the existence of a secret wiretapping program approved by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times for 15 years before joining the New York Times in 2002. A graduate of Cornell University, he is the author of Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice , which one reviewer called " All the President’s Men for an Age of…    

Prologue
"This Thing Called the Constitution"
Collateral Damage
"Don't Embarrass the Bureau"
Threats, Pronouncements, and the Media Wars
Sworn to Secrecy
Blood on Our Hands
High-Level Confirmation
Swift-Boated (Round Two)
A Loyal Bushie
Epilogue
Notes
Index