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The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside the Bush Administration.(Book review)
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Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
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March 22, 2008
- Author:
- Kmiec, Douglas W.
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THE TERROR PRESIDENCY: LAW AND JUDGMENT INSIDE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. BY JACK GOLDSMITH. W.W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2007.
In his book, The Terror Presidency, (1) Harvard Professor Jack Goldsmith writes about his nine months of service as head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Department of Justice. The book is a useful and interesting contribution to the modern debate over the balance between national security and civil liberties. It is also a provocative contribution, perhaps sometimes in ways unintended by the author, to what it means to be a nation governed by the rule of law rather than the rule of men. Until recently, this Office was not well known to the ...