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Article: Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution.(Book review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2009
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Power Play: The Bush Presidency and the Constitution. By James P. Pfiffner. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 299 pp.
Nearing the 100-day mark of his administration, President Barack Obama released a series of so-called torture memos prepared by the George W. Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel. The memos provided the legal justification for such harsh interrogation techniques as waterboarding and rekindled the debate over whether official inquires should be made into the conduct of the Bush administration during the "war on terror." Members of Congress and commentators pressed for the creation of a "truth commission," not only to review ...