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Article: Executive power in the war on terror.(Essay)
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- Policy Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S legal performance in the war on terror is much like its performance in the war in Iraq. In both cases it had plausible objectives but employed mistaken, often counterproductive and occasionally foolish strategy. The Bush administration itself has admitted mistakes in Iraq. But it is also important to describe the errors in its legal strategy to which it has not yet admitted so that future administrations will not suffer similar defeats in the courts of law and the courts of public opinion.
The errors in the Bush administration's legal strategy had common roots. One was an ideological focus on bolstering executive power and a consequent ...